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lar was “not alone” in believing its
managers should be exempt from
overtime and minimum wage laws,
noting the company’s many victories in federal court. A North Carolina federal court “has ruled 46
times in the past few years that individual Family Dollar store managers are classified properly,” she said.
Andrew Frisch, a lawyer who’s
sued Chesapeake, Va.-based Dol-
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lar Tree on behalf of assistant
managers, said it’s the companies’
taut payroll that lead to lawsuits.
Many workers end up working
through legally mandated unpaid
breaks or doing other off-theclock work, he said.
“It’s an untenable amount of
work,” Frisch said.
In addition to working through
unpaid breaks, Frisch said there
are other, smaller ways in which
dollar-store employees get shorted. “At virtually every dollar-store
Shoppers
wait in line
at a Family
Dollar store in
Belleville, NJ.