On October 2, 2024, with co-counsel, KL filed a collective and class action alleging that Hannaford Supermarkets had failed to pay department manager positions overtime as required under federal and state law. The lawsuit is filed in federal court in Portland Maine and asserts that Hannaford had purposely misclassified specific managers as exempt from overtime pay even though they routinely did the same work as regular employees who were eligible for overtime pay. Hannaford recently changed its classification of department managers and will now pay them for overtime going forward. But Hannaford did not agree to pay department managers for the time they worked over 40 hours a week in the past. The suit KL has brought seeks to recover those unpaid back wages.
Contact Klafter Lesser if you are a present or former Hannaford employee interested in learning more about the lawsuit.
A copy of the complaint can be found here. You can learn more about Hannaford, its reclassification and the lawsuit here:
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/10/06/hannaford-makes-mid-level-managers-eligible-for-overtime-pay/