A former employee of Table Talk Pies is claiming that a set of policies at the company’s manufacturing facility resulted in her and more than 500 other employees not being paid for all the hours they worked.
In a class action lawsuit originally filed in 2020 in Worcester Superior Court, Tanya Oliveira, a former maintenance employee at the pie company, claimed a payroll policy that rounded employees’ work time to the nearest quarter hour resulted in them being underpaid because they were not allowed to clock in more than seven minutes before their shift started. In addition, employees were required to be on the factory floor seven minutes before the start of their shift, time for which the lawsuit says they were not paid.
While Oliveira worked at the company’s factory on Southgate Street in Worcester, these policies were in place at all three of Table Talk’s facilities at the time.
In a court hearing Tuesday, attorneys for both Oliveira and Table Talk asked a judge to grant summary judgement in their favor. While the parties largely agreed on the facts of the case, each had a different analysis on the legality of what happened.
According to payroll data cited in court documents, between May 19, 2017 and Oct. 16, 2021, Table Talk’s rounding policy resulted in production and maintenance employees losing a total of more than 4,200 hours of pay. In addition, between May 19, 2017 and May...
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