Lowe’s Miscalculated Workers’ Overtime Pay, New Lawsuit Says

Lowe’s Home Centers LLC intentionally mischaracterizes certain bonus payments and excludes volunteer hours when calculating overtime pay, according to a lawsuit filed by employees Thursday in North Carolina federal court.

Scott Alminiana and four other employees sued Lowe’s, which is headquartered in North Carolina and operates over 2,000 stores nationwide, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

The employees allege that Lowe’s policies violate overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania law and seek to represent a FLSA collective and state-law classes of Lowe’s retail, distribution, and ...