Blitchton Marathon Connected to Unpaid Wage Allegations

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Florida gas station operator Blitchton Marathon Inc. and its owner are the defendants in a proposed collective/class action over alleged Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations. The lawsuit claims proposed collective members were not paid proper wages due to the defendants’ policy of requiring cashiers to reimburse the company—out of their own pockets—for cash drawer and/or inventory shortages, effectively reducing the individuals’ hourly wages to below the federal minimum benchmark. From the lawsuit:

“[The plaintiff] was paid every week. Whenever [the plaintiff] received his paycheck, there would be an envelope with an amount written on it, paper-clipped to the check. The amount ranged from $20 to $200. When [the plaintiff] inquired as to what this number was with manager and owner [defendant], he told him it was money [the plaintiff] owed for his cash drawer being short or for undisclosed inventory shortages. [The plaintiff] inquired as to how he calculated this amount. [The individual defendant] would never give [the plaintiff] a straight answer.”