Target class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: A former Target employee filed a class action lawsuit against Target Corp.
- Why: The plaintiff claimed Target failed to pay hourly workers in Colorado for all time worked, including during meal and rest breaks.
- Where: The Target class action lawsuit was filed in Colorado state court.
A new class action lawsuit claims Target failed to pay hourly employees in Colorado for all of the time they worked.
A former Target employee filed the lawsuit alleging the company did not properly pay workers for off-the-clock work or disrupted breaks and failed to reimburse business expenses. The plaintiff reports working for Target as an hourly-paid, non-exempt employee from approximately September 2018 to June 2026.
The plaintiff claims the unpaid work was a regular occurrence for Target’s hourly employees in Colorado. “Plaintiff and class members regularly worked off-the-clock for [the] defendants’ benefit and were not properly compensated for all hours worked,” the Target class action lawsuit says.
The plaintiff also alleges Target required workers to incur business-related expenses as a direct consequence of their job duties or at the company’s direction and failed to reimburse them. The class action lawsuit argues that unreimbursed costs reduced workers’ compensation below the legally required wage rate.
The plaintiff wants to represent a class of all current and former hourly-paid or non-exempt employees who worked for Target in Colorado from three years before the filing of the complaint to the date of final judgment. The class includes approximately 50 or more individuals, the plaintiff estimates.
Target lawsuit seeks unpaid wages for missed meal and rest breaks
The plaintiff claims Target employees regularly experienced late, shortened, missed or interrupted meal and rest periods and did not receive proper pay for that time.
According to the class action lawsuit, Colorado law requires an uninterrupted 30-minute meal period for shifts exceeding five hours and a paid 10-minute rest period for every four hours worked. By failing to provide required rest breaks, Target allegedly forced employees to perform an extra 10 minutes of labor without the additional compensation required by law.
Target knew or should have known it had a duty to pay its workers under Colorado law and willfully failed to do so, the plaintiff alleges. The complaint serves as a demand for unpaid wages on behalf of the plaintiff and class members.
The class action lawsuit claims Target violated the Colorado Constitution, the state’s wage and hour laws and its overtime and minimum pay standards.
The plaintiff demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief and an award of unpaid minimum and regular wages, liquidated damages, restitution, penalties and interest for all class members.
In other labor disputes, Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse is facing class action allegations it shorted hourly retail employees on overtime and other wages by automatically deducting meal breaks they were never fully allowed to take.
Have you worked as an hourly employee for Target in Colorado? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Miri K. Trauner and Jonathan Apsan of Lawyers for Justice P.C.
The Target class action lawsuit is Case No. 2026CV32601, in the Arapahoe County Court in Colorado.
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