Ross class action alleges company fails to pay employees overtime wages

Ross overtime class action lawsuit overview:

• Who: Plaintiff Jacqueline Lyle filed a class action lawsuit against Ross Stores Inc.
• Why: Ross allegedly failed to pay employees overtime wages as required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
• Where: The Ross employees class action lawsuit was filed in Tennessee federal court.

Ross Stores Inc. violates the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay overtime wages to which employees are entitled, a class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Jacqueline Lyle says she was employed as a full-time, hourly-paid employee at a Ross Dress for Less store in Nashville, Tennessee.

While working for Ross, Lyle says she regularly worked more than 40 hours per week within weekly pay periods and was entitled to overtime pay. However, the company allegedly required employees to regularly work “off the clock” to reduce its labor costs, the class action lawsuit alleges.

Lyle says Ross required her and other Ross employees to work during unpaid meal periods without being compensated as required by the FLSA. She says that employees who worked during unpaid meal periods are entitled to overtime pay when they otherwise worked at least 40 hours during the work week.

Failure to pay Ross employees overtime violates FLSA, class action says

Ross would allegedly edit employees’ compensable time if they did not clock out during their meal periods, ensuring that they would not be paid for this time, Lyle alleges.

“Defendant’s common practice of not compensating Plaintiff and potential plaintiffs for all their compensable overtime hours at the applicable FLSA overtime rates of pay within weekly pay periods during all times material violated the overtime provisions of the FLSA,” the class action says.

Ross unjustly enriched itself by failing to pay employees for all of the hours they worked, Lyle asserts. Ross did not have a good-faith basis to violate the FLSA and willfully violated the law’s principles with reckless disregard to the law’s principles, the Ross class action lawsuit asserts.

Lyle filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of herself and a proposed class of all current and former full-time hourly employees who worked at any of Ross’ stores in the United States during the applicable limitations period.

She claims that she and other putative class members are entitled to unpaid overtime wages and other damages.

Earlier this year, Ross recalled 5,800 Taylor and Finch Six-Wick Scented Candles over concerns they can combust and cause injury.

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Lyle is represented by Gordon E. Jackson, J. Russ Bryant, James L. Holt Jr. and J. Joseph Leatherwood IV of Jackson Shields Yeiser Holt Owen & Bryant.

The Ross employees class action lawsuit is Jacqueline Lyle v. Ross Stores Inc., Case No. 3:23-cv-01114, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division.

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