Jimmy John's Owner Plunked with FLSA Class Action

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Georgia Jimmy John’s franchiser WTR Enterprises, Inc. is the defendant in a proposed collective action filed on behalf of current and former assistant store managers who are owed allegedly unpaid overtime wages. The plaintiff, an assistant store manager from 2011 through July 2014, claims the defendant employed a policy of not paying workers time-and-a-half wages for all hours worked over 40, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The case argues proposed collective members’ job duties, despite what their job titles indicate, included no managerial responsibilities that would require the “exercise of meaningful independent judgment and discretion.”