JPMorgan Managers’ Nationwide FLSA Action Proceeds

JPMorgan Chase & Co. must face an overtime collective action brought by assistant branch managers from across the nation after a federal judge gave initial approval to the workers’ proposed class (Varghese v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., 2016 BL 294700, S.D.N.Y., No. 14-1718, 9/9/16).

Assistant branch managers who worked at Chase Bank locations in at least nine states alleged that JPMorgan misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

The workers established that their experiences of ...