Can we file a civil suit as a group?
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Exempt employees are not subject to overtime because you're a salary employee. If your position was once non-exempt and is turning into an exempt position at the same pay, I would quit. An exempt position (salary) moving to a non-exempt (typically hourly) position, and they are working you over 40 hours but not paying you over time. That's a lawsuit.
I had a team member get a settlement check from that it was only about $600.
When that happened about 7 years ago there was a settlement and settlement checks went out.
You can sue for anything. Did Follett lose? I didn’t see any changes to putting ASM’s back to exempt so either they settled or nothing happened. Im guessing it’s the latter.
Title doesn’t matter ultimately. Responsibilities do. The job descriptions will be different.
They have been sued in the past when they changed ASM from salaried to hourly, so it could be possible. Idk if change in title makes a difference which is probably why they changed the title.
Look at where the cuts happened. It’s a better financial gain to either run the store as they have it staffed now with next to no one, or, let the campus get out of the contract. Some contracts had labor expectations in them because the MVP’s just wanted accounts, didn’t care about the details.
That's it. I am calling our campus contact and telling them everything. Freight piled up in storage rooms, no part-time employees, no ASM and managers running their a***s and putting in a 60 hour work week with no added compensation. Now it sounds like some will be demoted and possible pay cut with that, I suspect. It seems to me follett wants the universities to cancel the contracts. I think we would all do better as self ops in bookstores.
Not unless you can prove your exempt status was only to prevent paying you overtime.