The related companies that own Marshalls, T.J. Maxx and Home Goods agreed to pay $4.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging they wrongly denied overtime pay to employees being trained as assistant store managers (Roberts v. TJX Cos., 2016 BL 330030, D. Mass., No. 13-13142, 9/30/16).
The partial settlement doesn’t resolve the employees’ additional claim that while working as assistant store managers, they were wrongly classified as exempt from overtime, a federal district court in Massachusetts said.
That issue remains to be litigated, an attorney representing the workers told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 4.
The settlement, which ...
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