Creative Dining Services Employees Underpaid for Overtime?
Last Updated on May 14, 2026
At A Glance
- This Alert Affects:
- Creative Dining Services employees in the U.S. who earned bonuses, shift pay differentials or other types of compensation in addition to their hourly wage.
- What’s Going On?
- Attorneys working with ClassAction.org believe that Creative Dining Services employees who worked overtime may have been underpaid, as the company may not have factored bonuses, shift differentials and other compensation into employees’ overtime rates.
- How Could a Lawsuit Help?
- If filed and successful, a lawsuit could help Creative Dining Services employees recover wages they may be owed from potentially miscalculated overtime rates. A lawsuit could also force Creative Dining to change its pay practices to better comply with federal wage and employment laws.
- What You Can Do
- If you worked for Creative Dining Services and believe you may have been underpaid for your overtime work, fill out the form on this page.
- Could I Get Fired?
- Federal law prohibits employers from firing, demoting or otherwise retaliating against employees who report overtime violations or otherwise exercise their legal rights.
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are investigating whether a class action lawsuit can be filed on behalf of Creative Dining Services employees who may have been underpaid for their overtime work.
Specifically, they suspect that Creative Dining Services, a hospitality company headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, may have miscalculated employees’ overtime rates by not factoring in bonuses, shift differentials and other compensation, potentially violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
If you worked for Creative Dining Services and believe you may have been underpaid for your overtime, fill out the form on this page to learn more about what you can do.
How Is Overtime Calculated?
The FLSA mandates that overtime pay must be calculated as one-and-a-half times an employee’s regular pay rate.
Per the Department of Labor (DOL), an employee’s regular rate is calculated as their average hourly rate for a given pay period and must account for all forms of compensation the employee receives, including bonuses, shift differentials and other non-discretionary pay (with a few exceptions).
However, the attorneys believe that Creative Dining Services may have failed to properly calculate its employees’ regular rates, meaning they may have been underpaid for overtime.
How Could a Creative Dining Services Lawsuit Help?
If filed and successful, a lawsuit could help Creative Dining Services employees recover any unpaid overtime wages they might be owed. It could also force Creative Dining to alter its pay practices to better comply with the FLSA.
What You Can Do
If you worked for Creative Dining Services and earned bonuses, shift differentials or other types of compensation in addition to your hourly wage, fill out the form on this page.
After you get in touch, an attorney or legal representative may reach out to you directly to ask you some questions and explain how you may be able to help get a lawsuit started. It costs nothing to fill out the form or speak with someone, and you’re not obligated to take legal action if you don’t want to.
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