A former employee at a South Philadelphia Curaleaf store has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the cannabis retailer violated a city law that requires employers to provide predictable and regular scheduling for workers.
The lawsuit marks the latest push to keep large retail, restaurant, and hotel groups in compliance with the city’s Fair Workweek Law, which went into effect more than two years ago. The law requires most large chain companies to give workers their schedules 14 days in advance and compensate employees with “predictability pay” for last-minute shift changes.
The Massachusetts-based cannabis company Curaleaf — which now bills itself as “the world’s largest cannabis company” in terms of revenue — operates two dispensaries in Philadelphia and at least 18 stores statewide.
In a complaint filed Tuesday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, former employee Frankie Kelley alleged that, as a sales associate at Curaleaf’s Passyunk Avenue dispensary between July 2020 and April 2022, managers routinely flipped their schedule and failed to compensate workers for abrupt changes.
“There were obvious signs of things that are not abnormal practices in my experience in the retail world,” Kelley said in an interview. “But your schedule is not being respected. You’re not being heard as an employee.”
In an e-mailed statement, Curaleaf vowed to fight the claims in court.
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