Kroger Hit With Another FLSA Overtime Suit by Assistant Managers

Kroger Co. again faces allegations it deliberately cheated hundreds of assistant grocery store managers out of overtime pay “to minimize labor costs,” according to a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action filed Thursday in an Ohio federal court.

Thomas Schell and Christopher Riley, who worked as assistant managers at Kroger-branded stores in Columbus and Dayton, allege the company regularly required them and other similarly situated employees to work more than 40 hours per week.

But the employees never received extra wages for the additional hours because Kroger had a policy and practice of misclassifying them as exempt from FLSA overtime ...