Plaintiffs in a Dollar Tree employee lawsuit have requested approval for a $2.5 million settlement to end the suit, according to Law360. Plaintiffs allege that Dollar Tree distribution centers committed wage violations including not allowing employees proper break and rest periods. The plaintiff class includes anyone who worked at a Dollar Tree distribution center between April 2011 and the end of 2019.
Dollar Tree Employee Arbitration Agreements
According to Law360, Plaintiff Terry Snipes brought his claim against Dollar Tree Distribution Inc. in April 2015. The suit and class membership have been complicated by Dollar Tree’s employee arbitration program.
Lead plaintiff Terry Snipes opted out of this program before filing his suit. In May, U.S. District Judge Morrison England was asked by Dollar Tree to enforce arbitration measures signed by about 1,600 employees after the October 6, 2014 cutoff.
The judge forced the claims into arbitration and dismissed claims made by employees who signed arbitration pacts after the Oct. cutoff under the California Private Attorneys General Act. However, these 1,600 employees are still eligible to access the Dollar Tree employee lawsuit settlement.
The workers said in Friday’s preliminary settlement motion, “While certain of the settlement class members agreed to arbitrate their claims with defendant on an individual basis, defendant agrees, for purposes of settlement only, that the claims of such settlement class members are typical of plaintiffs’ claims.”
The Dollar Tree Employee Lawsuit Settlement
In the Dollar Tree employee lawsuit, plaintiffs alleged that Dollar Tree’s labor and wage practices are in violation of California law. Workers allege the company failed to give appropriate breaks and maintained poor timekeeping practices.
Negotiations and significant litigation have led to a tentative settlement. The requested settlement of $2.5 million is seen as a big victory for the workers.
The settlement includes $125,000 to go towards claims filed under the California Private Attorneys General Act with $93,000 of that amount going to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Another $750,000 will go towards attorney fees, according to Law360. The roughly 2,400 class members of the settlement will receive an average of $625 each. Any uncashed settlement checks are meant to be sent to the Veterans Legal Institute.
Dollar Tree’s History of Employee Mistreatment
Good Jobs First estimates that Dollar Tree and its divisions have committed 13 wage and labor violations since 2000 resulting in fines of $65,328,128. This is by far the most costly of Dollar Tree’s violations, but employee discrimination is a close second resulting $45,218,750 in penalties for the company. The Dollar Tree employee lawsuit is only the tip of the iceberg of Dollar Tree’s alleged violations.
The U.S. Department of Labor also reports that a Dollar Tree in Pennsylvania put employees in danger by blocking emergency exits, failing to secure dangerous materials, failing to maintain sanitary bathrooms, and improperly storing and maintaining materials such as electric panels.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found similar violations at another store in Massachusetts. All told, these two locations racked up more than $800,000 for putting employees in hazardous situations.
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77 thoughts onDollar Tree Employee Lawsuit Reaches $2.5M Settlement
I worked at Dollar tree in 2023 and worked until the next year of December 2024. Federal and state was already not being taken out of my pay for some reason and I was claiming my daughter also my W-4 was done without my knowledge and nothing has been done to the manager he’s still there works there. I didn’t get my W-2 in the mail nor my last check my taxes were completely wrong and I had to pay in taxes because there was not good management at the Dollar tree I worked at and now me and my daughters social security numbers and names have been data breached and I’m having the hardest time trying to keep up with this and had to contact government and report my identity stolen. This is unfair especially to a single mother that’s already having a hard time.
Yes they did not take federal tax out of mine, nobody could seem to help me therefore i owed IRS. Theres so much that goes on in this company how are they still open. I was ASM sometimes didnt get a lunch, definitely no 10 min breaks either, I think I was also wrongfully terminated and they did not give me my back pay, my 30 hours of PTO or my last check. They promoted me to full time asm in December 25 threw me into a store that had no SM no DM running on a skeleton crew I had no access to fire, hire, verbal or written wrote ups. It took them until March 26 to get my pay at my promotional rate per hour and that still wasnt what the DM said I’d be making. O.T should be time and a half not 1.00 more an hour. I have been in touch with HR and filed a complaint with the dept of labor to look into my 30 hours of PTO I earned that mysteriously disappeared thank goodness took a screen shot of my from another phone, since it wont allow you to take screenshots in the daily pay app ( how convenient) it took them 3 months to transfer me to the correct store, and HR just keeps giving me the run around about my last pay check, my back pay from Dec 25 and my pto. Meanwhile my bills are due. Now their payroll is saying my net income for my last check is over $300 short, I know for a fact my net was more when I did my math, so who is doing the payroll. I even text HR screen shot of my PTO and he hasn’t done anything nor have I seen any money.
Over $110,000 in shrink at one store! Homeless , drug addicts and street walkers walk in and out with baskets full, use fentanyl in restrooms.