TikTok Inside Sales Reps Sue Over Wrongly Denied Overtime Pay

TikTok sales representatives brought a proposed class action Monday accusing the tech firm of misclassifying them as exempt from federal overtime laws.

The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by two salespeople alleged that TikTok and corporate parent ByteDance Inc. improperly exempted them from the overtime requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA requires companies to pay certain employees 1.5 times their hourly wage for work performed above 40 hours per week.

Selena Connell and Jeffrey “Beau” Wengertseek seek to represent a class of “inside” sales employees who primarily sell ...