$700,000 Settlement Resolves Claims of Wage and Hour Violations Against Life Time Inc.

Wage and hour violations alleged by employees have led to a $700,000 settlement for trainers employed by Life Time, Inc.  The federal judge approved the settlement that concludes a lawsuit associated with wage and hour violations.

According to the wage and hour violations lawsuit, trainers claimed that they were improperly paid based on a standard established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.  The judge associated with that wage and hour violations lawsuit has been presiding over the case for four years and finally approved the settlement to allow the case to conclude.  More than 155 trainers are included in the wage and hour violations settlement.

The wage and hour violations lawsuit was based on the claim that Life Time did not calculate the hourly base pay appropriately with regard to trainers’ commissions and in relation to reporting and compensating those trainers for work that was carried out between August 2010 and November 2017.

The initial attempt by the plaintiffs to pursue claims on behalf of trainers based out of more than 100 locations around the country was rejected two years ago by the judge. The judge said in January 2016 that there were too many different variations in the allegations of unfair work conditions to allow the case to move forward.

The case was initially filed in the Central District of California in 2014 but was later consolidated with a related case in the Northern District of Illinois. The workers all had similar claims of wage and hour violations, saying that the gym paid them as exempt employees and on commission despite the fact that the trainers also made a base hourly wage.

They also claim that they spent a great deal of their time doing tasks that were not associated with commission, such as performing fitness assessments for potential clients, cleaning the exercise equipment, soliciting new business on the gym floor and completing mandatory classes.

Workers are allegedly paid based on a very complicated system according to the 2016 rejection of the nationwide class efforts. In January 2017, Life Time bid for a summary judgment over any class claims associated with Illinois. The mediator-negotiated settlement officially closes out the lawsuit and resolves all pending claims against the gym for wage and hour violations.

The specifics of a person’s job and how he or she was paid ultimately determines whether or not the worker is able to file a wage and hour violations lawsuit. Deciding to file a wage and hour violations lawsuit is often a last resort after an employee finds out that they have not received proper pay for the classification of their job.

Those employees who believe they have been subject to unfair and illegal wage and hour violations are eligible to pursue their options to file a lawsuit.

The Wage and Hour Violations lawsuit is case 1:14-CV-06056, filed in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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