Speedway Gets FLSA Collective Decertified in Managers’ OT Suit

Speedway LLC convinced a federal judge to decertify a Fair Labor Standards Act collective of more than 1,260 convenience store managers who claim they’re misclassified as exempt from overtime pay.

The employees’ work environments varied significantly depending on the Speedway locations they worked at, making it impossible to determine if they were misclassified without delving into their individual circumstances, Judge Richard G. Stearns said Monday.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted Speedway’s motion to decertify the FLSA collective and, for the same reasons, declined to certify classes on the workers’ parallel claims under Massachusetts, New York, ...