Peloton Owes Field Specialists Unpaid Overtime Wages, Lawsuit Claims

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A proposed class and collective action claims Peloton Interactive, Inc. owes field specialists overtime wages for hours worked during unpaid meal periods. 

The 22-page lawsuit explains that Peloton employs non-exempt field specialists to deliver, install and show customers how to use its branded exercise equipment. The case says that for every six hours a field specialist works, Peloton automatically deducts a 30-minute meal period from their wages, regardless of whether the employees actually take a break.

For every 12 hours of work, field specialists are subjected to an automatic one-hour meal break deduction, the suit, filed by a former Peloton employee, adds. 

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However, the case alleges that field specialists often must work through these meal periods “in light of their duties and responsibilities which require them to operate company vehicles and be frequently on the road traveling from location to location in order to comply with strict delivery times and mandates enforced by the company.”

As a result of Peloton’s automatic meal deductions, field specialists regularly work more than 40 hours a week without receiving proper overtime wages, the complaint contends. 

The filing claims Peloton has violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor Law by failing to pay employees time-and-a-half wages for every hour worked past 40 each week.

The lawsuit seeks to represent any field specialists who worked for Peloton Interactive, Inc. in the United States within the past three years and worked more than 40 hours in one or more workweeks, or any field specialists who worked for Peloton Interactive, Inc. in New York within the past six years and worked more than 40 hours in one or more workweeks.

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