Publix, the dominant supermarket chain in Florida and the southeastern United States, is accused of not paying several middle managers for work the company forced them to do off the clock, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Tampa.
A failure to pay employees for work done would mean the nation’s seventh largest grocer committed a form of wage theft and violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The lawsuit proposes a collective action to include all non-exempt, hourly paid assistant department managers who worked over 40 hours in a workweek in a Publix store after Oct. 18, 2020.
A joint statement from Morgan & Morgan’s Ryan Morgan and Shavitz Law Group’s Gregg Shavitz said:
“Every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, American workers lose as much as $50 billion per year to wage theft. Our clients have experienced something many workers face as we all become reachable on our phones at any time of day or night — that companies expect employees to be in constant communication but fail to track this time worked. It’s unacceptable to force hourly workers to work outside of their shifts and to not pay workers for their time.
“We believe that the assistant department managers’ allegations only scratch the surface of Publix off-the-clock conditions,” the statement continued. “We will work to uncover all the evidence about the extent of these alleged...
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