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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Employee Accuses Pepsi of FLSA Violations - Law Street Media

Plaintiff Emanuele Stevens (individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated) filed suit against defendants PepsiCo Inc., Bottling Group, LLC, and CB Manufacturing Company, Inc on Monday in the Southern District of New York. The suit alleges that the defendants willfully committed violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Ohio law by failing to properly compensate the plaintiff and the class for overtime hours they had worked.

FLSA is designed to protect individuals from harmful working conditions, substandard wages, and oppressive working hours, the complaint said; under the law, employers must pay their employees one and one-half times their regular hourly rate if they work in excess of forty hours a week.

The complaint added that under state and federal law, employers are also required to keep employee time sheets and payroll records “safe and accessible at the place or places of employment, or at one or more established central recordkeeping offices.”

Defendant PepsiCo employs the plaintiff and other members of the FLSA Collective and Ohio Class. Defendants Bottling Group, LLC and CB Manufacturing Company, Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of PepsiCo and issue payroll to non-exempt hourly employees, which include the plaintiff and class. As employers of the plaintiff, the defendants collectively “shared control and maintenance of employment records.”

Stevens began her employment with the defendants in October 2021 as a nonexempt hourly...



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