Aramark Owes Food Service Managers Overtime Pay, Lawsuit Says

Aramark Services Inc. misclassified food service managers as exempt from state and federal overtime pay requirements, a would-be collective suit alleges in federal court in Ohio.

LaTrecha Rice regularly works more than 40 hours per week for the food, facilities, and uniform services company, but Aramark doesn’t pay an overtime premium for her extra hours, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

The food service managers’ duties include preparing food, taking care of kitchen equipment, and keeping work areas clean, Rice says. These tasks don’t “require the exercise of discretion ...