Case: Wage & Hour/Fair Labor Standards Act (E.D.N.C.)

A North Carolina federal district court denied a store manager’s amended motion for class certification on Fair Labor Standards Act claims against Sampson Bladen Oil Company, Inc. alleging misclassification of store managers as salaried exempt employees when they should have been treated as hourly employees entitled to overtime pay, finding the proposed class definitions failed ascertainability requirements due to the need for individualized fact-finding to determine class membership and failed federal civil procedure rules predominance requirements due to significant individual differences between putative class members.

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