UPS Employee Claims Shipping Company Owes Him Unpaid Overtime

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A United Parcel Service (UPS) employee claims in a proposed lawsuit that the packaging and shipping giant owes him hundreds of hours of overtime wages.

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The four-page UPS lawsuit was filed by a man who says he worked as a specialist at the company’s West Chester, Pennsylvania hub from 2021 to October 2023. The plaintiff alleges that during this time, he and other specialists were required to work off the clock without pay, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Under the FLSA, employees like the plaintiff are entitled to time-and-a-half wages for every hour they work in excess of 40 each workweek, the suit shares.

According to the case, the employee was allegedly told by his supervisor how many hours he was “allowed” to log on his timesheets each day despite being instructed to work additional hours. The plaintiff was told that the “payable hours worked were based on the number of hours allocated by UPS for employees to perform certain duties” rather than the actual number of hours it takes to complete those tasks, the case says.

As the complaint tells it, the man’s supervisor made numerous misrepresentations to induce the employee to work without pay, including by falsely promising that he would receive extra days off for the unpaid overtime hours. The plaintiff’s supervisor also apparently told him that “working unpaid hours was how one got promoted in the company,” the filing contends.

The Pennsylvania man argues that UPS has a “culture” of forcing employees like him to work unpaid hours and claims that, during his time as a specialist, he amassed approximately 467 hours of unpaid overtime wages.

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