Factory Workers Filed FLSA Lawsuit Against Baldor Electric Company

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An employee of Baldor Electric Company filed a lawsuit against his employer that claims the company failed to properly compensate workers at its manufacturing plant in Ozark, Arkansas in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. According to the suit, employees are required to work an extra 15 to 30 minutes before and after each scheduled shift in order to prepare their workstations and pass on instructions to workers on the next shift. Employees are paid hourly, the complaint says, and they are responsible to record their hours by clocking in when they arrive and clocking out when they leave. The plaintiff claims the time clock records are rounded to the employees’ scheduled starting and stopping times instead of recording the hours they actually worked. “As a result of Defendant’s improper rounding practice,” the complaint argues, “Plaintiff and other similarly-situated employees were not fully compensated for all the time they actually worked, including all of the overtime hours they worked over 40 in a workweek.”