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Lowe’s class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Eight current and former Lowe’s employees have filed a class action lawsuit.
- Why: They allege Lowe’s violated federal and state wage and hour laws by failing to pay accurate wages and uninterrupted breaks.
- Where: The Lowe’s class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
Lowe’s Home Centers LLC fails to pay employees accurate wages and allow breaks, according to a wage and hour class action lawsuit filed Jan. 31 in California federal court.
Eight current and former Lowe’s employees filed the Lowe’s class action lawsuit alleging the retailer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and California labor laws by failing to:
- Provide rest and meal breaks
- Pay overtime wages
- Maintain accurate records for hours worked
- Pay wages when due
- Provide accurate wage statements
- Reimburse work-related expenses
- Pay all wages due upon an employee’s termination.
“[Lowe’s] wilfully refused to pay plaintiffs and members of the class and collective the required compensation for all hours worked and failed to keep time records as required by law,” the class action lawsuit alleges.
Lowe’s class action describes numerous alleged federal, state wage-and-hour violations
State and federal wage-and-hour laws require employees be granted uninterrupted rest breaks during their workdays. The plaintiffs allege they were not allowed time to take an uninterrupted 10-minute rest break for every four hours worked, as required by law, due to constant work demands and staffing shortages.
Additionally, the plaintiffs say they were frequently prevented from taking a full, uninterrupted 30-minute lunch break and were not compensated at a premium wage when their meal break was missed, short, late or interrupted.
The class action lawsuit says these non-compliant meal breaks should have been counted as “on duty” meal periods and therefore the time should have counted as time worked.
California labor law also requires employers to pay employees one additional hour of pay at their regular rate of compensation for each workday in which a meal or rest break is not provided, the Lowe’s class action lawsuit explains.
However, the plaintiffs say Lowe’s failed to properly compensate them for their missed breaks. The retailer also allegedly failed to pay overtime wages to employees who worked more than 40 hours in a workweek.
Lowe’s allegedly failed to keep accurate wage statements, preventing employees from knowing the amount of wages to which they were entitled. The plaintiffs also say that Lowe’s failed to pay employees’ wages at the time of termination as required by law.
Another Lowe’s class action lawsuit says the retailer fails to disclose background check results as required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Have you worked for Lowe’s? Tell us what you think of the Lowe’s class action lawsuit in the comments.
The plaintiffs are represented by Carolyn H. Cottrell, Ori Edelstein, Eugene Zinovyev, Kristabel Sandoval and Beth A. Christopher of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP.
The Lowe’s class action lawsuit is Juan Rodriguez, et al. v. Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, Case No. 3:23-cv-00453-TSH, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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8 thoughts onLowe’s class action claims company fails to pay accurate wages, allow breaks
I’ve been working for Lowes for approximately 5 years. My job title is pro sales specialist. My pay structure has changed many times. We are allowed to earn an additional 600.00 per month if we make 26,000 or more weekly (used to be 20,000) if the department makes it’s pre determined budget. The other specialist make their numbers too. I rarely make the extra pay because corporate is constantly changing the rules and the predetermined department budget. The other factor is the money has to be Lowe’s pro tender it cannot be cash payment or paid by a discover credit card or visa or MasterCard, WE DON’T GET BONUS pay unless it’s a Lowe’s business credit card payment. They started to give us credit if another credit card being used only if it’s saved in the customers profile on the Lowe’s app. We received credit for these sales for a couple months but then Lowes has decided that we will NOT get credit for this now. We have asked why and get the same response, that is no response. Someone in Lowes corporate management that receives bonuses based on this, obviously decided not to do the right thing and pay us for these sales. These changes and greedy corporate attitudes and devaluing culture from corporate Lowes, is a serious issue and problem for Lowes. The ASM at Lowe’s store 2303 in Missouri should be prosecuted for the damages he’s done. Not just to Lowes for all the stealing he’s done. But the lies and the amount of people he has fired to cover for his illegal actions and lies he’s told his supervisors. Corporate Lowes manager Christine O’Trimble has covered for him and it’s unbelievable what them two have done to good hardworking and reasonable people that they have been fired or ran off to get away with these managers lies. It’s not just a toxic environment but a very hostile environment. It’s going to become a very physical aggressive environment if they don’t have corporate get local control of these managers. Another manager head cashier, Jose braggs about his 29 write ups he’s completed last month (Dec 23) and tells all the managers in their monthly meetings about his (destruction) accomplishments. It’s these two local managers that have destroyed one store in a short amount of time. I’ve made this store 1.3 million dollars of Lowes pro tender, and 3.3 million dollars in total sales for one year. I don’t even make 45,000 a year. This shows, I should have bonus money every month, but because everything changes weekly from corporate management, no sales specialist bonus and there are three of us. Not one has made bonus money. None of us are happy or satisfied because we are lied to by management or they blow off anything that is asked by us. These managers have numerous complaints from employees and from customers and corporate ignores these complaints and they don’t value or care about the employees that are making them money and getting new customers to shop with Lowes. I can literally make a couple thousand more annually working in the fast food industry. If an employee is making a million dollars or more that should be 100,000 per year pay for an employee. This ASM is making more than that with his bonus pay that myself and the other two sales specialist I work with. We are a huge part of that ASM’s pay for our daily efforts, he doesn’t care. If you really want to work for Lowes, make sure you negotiate a good pay rate because once your there they will take serious advantage of you. They will lie to your face and they will make you do their responsibilities too.
I recently was not allowed my reasonable accommodation at lowes so I was forced to quit and they still owe me for hours my supervisor said she’d have fixed because they weren’t accurate and on my last pay I never got my pay accruals either, everytime I had to request off a certain day for usually a dr appointment they would subtract that entire days hours from my vacation accruals so now at time of my quitting I had negative vacation days, then they won’t let you access your employee portal so you can catch them.
I worked for Lowe’s for 16 years and this so true. I actually had to clock out and finish my work or I would have been written up.
My son was recently wrongfully terminated after verifying doors had been locked . Was told the next morning an exit door was left unlocked after an employee left out of it. My son closed that night but, the closing person who arms the alarms at midnight was still in building with others for night shift. Lowes refused to show my son the video proof of this . No warning just told it was an immediate policy violation that result in termination .
My son is a veteran , very disciplined and goes by the book.
To be a manager for Lowe’s you have to be a liar, dishonest and well liked by the corrupt store manager to maintain employment. The managers that are good, honest and thorough at their jobs are the ones they fire and throw under the bus. Your son is one of the good guys that Lowe’s doesn’t want. I’m surprised with what you said occurred he was working for store 2303 in Arnold Missouri because that’s the crap they do there to good employees.
The middle management at these stores are toxic to work culture. They will throw you under a bus whenever they have a chance. Doesn’t matter if you have been there ten years or one. And it reflects on store performance. Take a look at stores located in the Bay Area California. You’ll see a trend when you read the reviews.
I also work for Lowes as a head cashier I also never get breaks and they cut my hours whenever they want and don’t c are that I can’t pay my bills. If a company hires you and they count on you to show up and do a good job so their company can functional . You would think in return you should be able to count on the number of hours per week they hired you for. But that is not what Lowes does. They don’t care. If their store didn’t make enough money then you don’t get your hours. So not good job security that’s for sure. I’ve been looking for a different job that appreciates hard working dependable person that I can invest the next 20 years of my hard work into.
I was employed by Lowe’s for 18 years and drove a delivery truck for them for several years I never got lunches because we were over booked for delivering products.