Klafter Lesser is pleased to announce that on August, 27, 2026, the federal court approved the settlement of this case. Checks will be sent to all eligible settlement class individuals on or about the third week of October, so checks should arrive within a week or two after that.
By way of background, 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.
A copy of the approval order can be found here.