John Varvatos Class Certified in Equal Pay Row

John Varvatos Enterprises Inc. must turn over contact information for women sales associates working at its stores over the last three and a half years who may have been denied a clothing allowance provided to male associates.

A federal judge in New York certified a pay discrimination lawsuit against the men’s clothing company as a collective action under the Equal Pay Act (Knox v. John Varvatos Enters. Inc., 2017 BL 371414, S.D.N.Y., No. 17 Civ. 772 (GHW) (GWG), collective action certified 10/17/17).

John Varvatos provided an allowance to male sales associates because it required male employees to wear ...