US fashion retailers J.Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch have both been
served lawsuits by former employees for failing to pay out overtime.
Former J.Crew employee, Andrew Duberry, who worked for the fashion
retailer between 2010 and 2012, claims that the company refused to
adequately compensate him and 250 other California store employees for
overtime work and meal breaks.
Duberry states that J.Crew “engaged in a uniform policy and systematic
scheme of wage abuse against their hourly paid or nonexempt employees
within the State of California and the policy of denying wages for
off-the-clock work and missed meal breaks means that store employees
were often not paid minimum wage,” according to the Fashion Law.
The lawsuit filed by Duberry also claims that the fashion retailer
failed to keep accurate payroll documentation and provide their staff
with detailed pay slips.
Similarly, teen fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch had also been
served a lawsuit for allegedly failing to compensate its
California-based employees. Samantha Jones, a former Hollister
employee who worked for the brand between 2005 and 2014, filed a
lawsuit against the apparel company claiming it has breached both the
Fair Labor Standards Act and state labor wage laws by refusing
employees overtime pay.
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Jones states that the fashion label “as a matter of corporate policy,
practice and procedure, intentionally, knowingly and systematically
failed to compensate plaintiff and the class members for all hours
worked (for on-call time), and under compensated them for overtime
worked that should have been paid at overtime rates had the on-call
time been paid for.”