Dollar General Managers Misclassified as Salaried, Suit Claims

Managers at Dollar General stores are misclassified as salaried exempt workers when they should really be hourly and entitled to overtime pay, two such managers allege in federal court in Alabama.

The discount chain’s store managers hold that position “only in name” and spend the “vast majority” of their work hours on manual labor such as stocking shelves, unloading trucks, and cleaning store bathrooms, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Thursday.

Plaintiff Amy Ingram worked as an Alabama store manager for Dolgencorp LLC, a Dollar General Corp. subsidiary based in ...