Belk Stores Get OK to Settle Workers’ Overtime Claims

Belk Inc. and its workers won court approval to settle claims that the department store chain failed to pay overtime compensation to hundreds of sales team managers.

The approval, issued Dec. 20 by Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, comes one month after the parties expressed their intention to settle.

Belk improperly classified the 384 workers in the suit as sales team managers exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standard Act, the workers alleged.

Affected workers will recover the equivalent of 4.15 hours of overtime per week, covering a ...