Dry Bar Salon Employees File Class Action Lawsuit over Wage and Hour Violations

Have you worked for Dry Bar salon as an assistant manager, stylist, shift lead, or receptionist? If so, you may have been improperly compensated for your work.

According to a major class action lawsuit filed by a group of Dry Bar salon employees, Dry Bar salon has routinely shorted employees of proper wages by failing to pay overtime and failing to compensate for work completed before or after shifts.

The new class action lawsuit against the company alleges serious wage and hour violations.

Dry Bar Salon Accused of Wage and Hour Violations

Drybar, unlike salons that rent chairs to stylists, has staff that’s paid by the hour.  According to the class action lawsuit, however, the Dry Bar salon does not pay its employees proper overtime wages.

Overtime (that is, time-and-a-half pay) should kick in for employees who work more than more than 40 hours in a week, or more than eight hours in a single day in California. But plaintiffs claim that Dry Bar salon does not provide proper overtime pay.

Overtime issues are not the only wage and hour violations included in this lawsuit. The wage and hour lawsuit also alleges that Dry Bar salon employees’ overtime rates are calculated without taking into account the commission they earned, so their overtime pay rate is lower than it should be. The lawsuit also claims that these hourly employees sometimes have to miss their proper meal and rest breaks, but are not compensated for the breaks they miss.

According to employee complaints, Dry Bar salon purposely overbooks their clients, meaning that employees are often forced to skip their rest and meal breaks.

The class action lawsuit is not the only place that Dry Bar salon employees have made these claims. Such complaints also appear from former workers on employee review websites. There have also been complaints of being required to do off-the-clock work before and after shifts.

Fair Labor Standards

There are a series of both federal and state wage and hour laws put in place to protect workers and ensure they are treated fairly. However, many workers across the country do not know the protections that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) offers, which can lead to employers taking advantage of them.

In some cases employers require unpaid overtime work despite the illegality of doing so, but workers may find themselves unable to file wage and hour complaints like this unpaid overtime lawsuit because they are not aware of FLSA rules. Others may be afraid that their employers will retaliate or even fire them if they speak up about these kinds of FLSA violations.

To protect workers who help to enforce FLSA rules, laws also exist to protect workers from discrimination based on wage and hour complaints.

If you have worked for Dry Bar salon or another salon in the last four years that has committed wage and hour violations like failure to pay overtime or provide required breaks, you may be able to file a lawsuit. Filing a lawsuit can help provide compensation for lost wages and overtime work.

Join a Free Salon Wage and Hour Class Action Lawsuit Investigation

If you worked for Drybar or another salon in the last four years and you were denied compensation for off-the-clock work, overtime, and/or missed meal and rest breaks, you may qualify to join a free salon employee class action lawsuit investigation.

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