LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
Retail Overtime
Temple, TX: (Feb-07-08) The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division brought a lawsuit against McLane Co. Inc., headquartered in Temple, Texas, alleging that the wholesale distributor of food and grocery products violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The suit claimed that the company had misclassified employees and did not pay overtime wages required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. It further accused the company of erroneously regarding retail merchandising specialists as outside sales employees exempt from FLSA coverage and not keeping required records of hours worked. Records show that an investigation was conducted by the Wage and Hour Division's Dallas District Office following an initial investigation of the company's Nicholasville, KY location by the division's district office in Louisville. US regulators stated that the FLSA requires that covered employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $5.85 an hour for all hours worked, plus time and one-half their regular rates of pay for hours worked over 40 per week, unless otherwise exempt.
As part of a settlement reached, McLane Co. has agreed to pay $1,559,316 in overtime back wages to 570 current and former retail merchandising specialists nationwide, resolving the wage and hour dispute. [KWTX NEWS: MCLANE OVERTIME]
Published on Feb-10-08
As part of a settlement reached, McLane Co. has agreed to pay $1,559,316 in overtime back wages to 570 current and former retail merchandising specialists nationwide, resolving the wage and hour dispute. [
Legal Help
If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no cost or obligation, please click the link below.Published on Feb-10-08
