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HUFFINGTON
10.06.13
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“When you shopped those stores
before, you really felt poor. Over the
last few years they’ve really upgraded
the shopping experience.”
have been filed against the three
primary dollar-store chains, according to court records. Such
lawsuits are now common across
industries, as workers sue employers under the Fair Labor
Standards Act. But the dollarstore world in particular has become a breeding ground for alle-
gations by workers that they were
shorted on pay.
For the dollar-store chains,
worker lawsuits have simply become a cost of doing business.
Earlier this year, 6,000 Dollar Tree workers joined a lawsuit against that company. They
claimed they were forced to clock
out for breaks, but had to continue working unpaid anyway.
“The number of employment-