MLB Advanced Media Facing Unpaid Overtime Collective Action

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MLB Advanced Media, L.P. is the defendant in a proposed class and collective action filed by a former employee who claims Major League Baseball’s digital media outpost failed to pay proper wages. The plaintiff, who worked for the defendant from 2010 through May 2016, alleges he was paid $20 per hour and received additional piece-rate wages—generally $85 per game—for time spent logging and cutting footage of MLB games. According to the complaint, the plaintiff and similarly situated employees often worked more than 40 hours per week without time-and-a-half hourly overtime pay. In a typical week, the case claims, the plaintiff put in between 43 and 47 hours without appropriate wages.

The lawsuit alleges that in determining whether an employee worked more than 40 hours in a given week, MLB Advanced Media failed to combine time spent by the worker on tasks associated with hourly pay with time spent on those associated with piece-rate wages.