Kroger Settles Assistant Managers’ Wages and Hours Suit

Kroger Co. and one of its subsidiaries have agreed to settle a suit alleging an assistant manager and others like him weren’t paid overtime wages due to a practice of classifying such workers as exempt employees.

The parties filed a joint motion to file a redacted settlement agreement on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

• William Powell, a former assistant manager at a City Market in Colorado, brought the proposed class action in July 2020 under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Colorado law; the case was transferred in 2021
• Powell alleged that he ...