Lawsuit: Dollar General Skims Employees' Hours to Avoid Paying Them

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Dollar General Corporation and a subsidiary are facing a proposed class and collective action filed by a former warehouse employee who claims he was not fully compensated for all the hours he worked. He alleges that the defendants’ timekeeping device would round off employees’ hours and skim off time that should have been compensated. From the complaint:

“The rounding policy applied by Defendants to Plaintiff's time clock punches systematically under-recorded time worked by Plaintiff, resulting in a long-term loss of time and corresponding pay during the entire course of Plaintiff's employment during which he was unpaid for numerous hours of work, some of which were overtime hours.”

The plaintiff also claims that he was required to spend time before and after his shifts putting on and removing safety gear required for his job, which further added to his uncompensated hours.