Convenience Store Chain RaceTrac Hit with Class Action Over Allegedly Unpaid Overtime Wages

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RaceTrac faces a proposed collective action that claims the service station and convenience store chain has failed to pay hourly employees proper overtime wages in violation of federal law.

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The eight-page lawsuit says that with “reckless disregard” for requirements established under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), RaceTrac has failed to pay hourly workers time-and-a-half wages for every hour worked in excess of 40 per week.

The suit alleges that the Georgia-based defendant, which operates around 600 convenience stores across seven southern states, has regularly failed to record in its time-keeping system all the compensable overtime hours worked by employees. The filing also accuses RaceTrac of “editing” some of its employees’ overtime hours out of the system.

The plaintiff, a full-time, hourly RaceTrac employee, claims she was scheduled to work 45 hours per week but routinely worked far more. In spite of this, the woman was compensated for only 45 hours of work, meaning she was improperly paid only five hours of overtime for such weeks, the case contends.

The complaint charges that, like the plaintiff, other employees have regularly worked more than 40 hours per week without being paid the overtime wages required under the FLSA.

“The net effect of [RaceTrac’s] common practice of failing to compensate [the plaintiff] and those similarly situated for all their compensable overtime was to save payroll costs and payroll taxes, all for which it has unjustly enriched itself and enjoyed ill gained profits at their expense,” the filing says.

The lawsuit looks to represent anyone who was employed by RaceTrac as an hourly-paid employee and who performed work for the company anywhere in the United States at any time within the past three years.

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