Carolina Herrera Ltd., which manufactures and sells luxury fashion designs, deliberately misclassified assistant store managers as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act to avoid paying them overtime wages, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in New York.
The proposed collective action was brought by David Labin, who worked at a Carolina Herrera store in Dallas from 2019 to 2020, on behalf of himself and other similarly situated employees.
Labin regularly worked more than 40 hours per week, averaging about 8 to 9 hours of overtime but never received time-and-a-half wages for that extra time because the ...
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