Court Conditionally Certifies FLSA Challenge To Papa John’s Driver Reimbursement Policy

Current and former Papa John’s International Inc. pizza delivery drivers who alleged that the company failed to properly reimburse them for automobile expenses sufficiently demonstrated they are similarly situated to obtain conditional certification of a Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage collective action, a federal court in Missouri ruled Sept. 14 (Perrin v. Papa John’s Int’l Inc.).

According to Judge Audrey G. Fleissig of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, William Perrin and other drivers alleged that Papa John’s applied similar, but not identical, automobile expense reimbursement policies nationwide that “systematically under-reimbursed” them for ...