Trader Joe’s Crew Member Files N.Y. Labor Suit Over Late Wages

Trader Joe’s East Inc. faces an accusation it violated New York wage law by paying more than 1,000 crew members on a biweekly, rather than weekly, basis, in a new proposed class action filed in federal court in Manhattan.

The proposed class action alleges that Trader Joe’s should’ve paid the employees on weekly because they qualify as manual workers under state law.

The employees are manual workers because they spend more than 25% of their time performing physical tasks, the complaint alleges. Their primary job duties are to bag groceries, run the cash register, clean the store, stock shelves, and ...