Santa Clara, CABloomingdale’s and Macy’s are accused of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and several California labor codes, including minimum wage and overtime pay, and the state's unlawful business practices statute. This latest wage and hour complaint is at the least the third wage and hour class action lawsuit brought against Macy’s since 2011.
The wage and hour lawsuit was filed February 21, 2023 in California federal court by five plaintiffs who have worked for Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s (Bloomingdale's Inc. is a subsidiary of Macy's Inc.) in California as either sales associates or inventory control specialists. The proposed class action is seeking to represent more than 1,100 current and former similarly situated hourly employees at the California stores within the last four years.
Plaintiffs Ha Nguyen, Alex Bhagatram, Alicia Taylor, Soraya Lodin, Teyani Cisneros, and Michael Webster allege that Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s regularly require employees to work outside of scheduled shifts – work that is uncompensated and unrecorded. Employees typically work seven to eight hours per shift, with five shifts per week, and they are expected to "constantly be on call" in order to make sales.
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