Morgan Vs Family Dollar Stores Essay

Abstract There are some companies that believe employees are simply just that employees, no matter what their titles may be they are mere employees. These companies require their employees to take of the business and do work that they are paid for regardless of what it takes to get it done. In some cases though if companies do not word work contracts properly it could cost the company a lot of money. This is something Family Dollar Stores found out when their store managers filed a lawsuit against them and won. What may have been clear to the company was not to its’ employees, the store managers so they filed a lawsuit against the company to get paid overtime money they felt they had earned.

The Case

Morgan v. Family Dollar Stores, Inc.,

If freight needed to be worked they worked it, if they needed to be a cashier that’s what they did, as managers they had full understanding that this is what the job entailed. The managers’ argument again reverted back to the fact they had little control management wise to make on the spot decisions; the very fact they needed approval of the district manager to take of hiring, firing, reprimanding employees and what kind or how much stock to bring in the store proved they were nothing more than glorified stockers. The court in this case agreed with the managers, saying they were non-exempt employees and needed to be paid overtime; the court awarded a lump sum settlement to the managers in this case. The second case against Family Dollar, In re Family Dollar FLSA Litigation, 637 F. 3d 508 - Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit 2011, Irene Grace, a store manager for Family Dollar, also contended that she too spent most of her time with non-managerial tasks and deserved to be paid overtime. These two cases although in two different districts and a few years apart were laid out in much of the same way, but in this particular case the store manager admitted to being able to run the store as she saw fit without having to get approval of her district