San Francisco Labor Lawyers At Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik File A Class Action Against Wal-Mart on Behalf of Assistant Store Managers For Alleged Back Overtime Pay
(PRWEB) February 13, 2015 -- The class action lawsuit was filed by the San Francisco employment attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug, & Bhowmik on January 29, 2015. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. misclassified their Assistant Store Managers and as a result the company allegedly failed to pay these employees overtime wages. The Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. class action, Case No. RG15756555 is currently pending in the Alameda County Superior Court for the State of California. To view a copy of the Complaint click here.
The class action lawsuit claims that the Assistant Store Managers engaged in a finite set of non-exempt tasks throughout their shift, including greeting customers, handling customer service requests and customer service complaints, answering phone calls, taking inventory, receiving product shipments, assisting in the merchandising operation, printing out reports and providing the reports to upper management, unlocking safes, counting money for the cash register, conducting safety inspections by walking the store aisles, processing merchandise returns, operating the customer care center, return desks and self check-out areas. The Complaint also alleges that the Assistant Store Managers spent almost no time supervising other employees working for Wal-Mart. As a result, the lawsuit alleges that the Assistant Store Managers should have been provided with the legally required thirty minute uninterrupted meal periods and received overtime wages.
The San Francisco employment attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug, & Bhowmik represent many employees in California wage violation lawsuits who have been forced to work uncompensated overtime hours. Do not wait for your statute of limitations to run on your potential claims. If you are a current or former Assistant Store Manager in California and would like to know more about your rights, click here or call (866) 771-7099.
Nicholas De Blouw, Blumenthal Nordrehaug & Bhowmik, http://bamlawca.com, +1 (858) 952-0354, [email protected]
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