A former Amazon employee claims in a proposed class action that she and other area managers were misclassified as exempt from receiving overtime wages, among other alleged violations of California law.
The 16-page case centers on Amazon’s alleged failure to pay time-and-a-half overtime to area managers even though, according to the lawsuit, they do not fall under any recognized overtime exemption. Per the suit, Amazon area managers do not meet the criteria for executive, administrative or professional exemption from overtime pay regardless of whether they earn the equivalent of an hourly rate of at least two times the minimum wage.
Nevertheless, the workers were required to put in more than 40 hours per week and eight hours per day without receiving appropriate time-and-a-half overtime wages, the case attests.
Aside from overtime pay, the lawsuit also alleges Amazon owes area managers minimum wages for every hour worked in excess of 40 per week and eight per day and has failed to accurately track workers’ overtime hours.
The plaintiff further claims that she and other employees’ paystubs stated that they performed labor in categories identified on each stub as “Regular Hours,” “Personal Time” and “Vacation Pay,” for which they received wages at their regular pay rates. According to the suit, workers did not perform any work that could be “properly and accurately” categorized as personal time or vacation pay. The plaintiff says that personal time and vacation pay are...
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