Tennessee Huddle House Operator Pegged with General Managers’ Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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Kentucky-based Shamrock Alliance, LLC and its owner, who operate a string of Huddle House restaurants in Tennessee, are facing a proposed collective action filed by two former general managers who claim the disconnect between their job titles and actual responsibilities resulted in unpaid wages. The plaintiffs say that despite being classified by the defendants as general managers, their job duties were primarily non-managerial in nature, and included performing the same tasks as hourly paid employees. The case argues the plaintiffs and proposed collective members therefore do not qualify as exempt from time-and-a-half overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

 The case claims the reason behind the defendants’ alleged non-payment of overtime wages to the plaintiffs was to stay with in “budgeted labor” costs.