Family Dollar workers complained of being underpaid for 80-hour workweeks, sleeping in chairs, and finding snakes in their stockrooms. Their complaints have been kept secret until now.
During her first year as a store manager at a Family Dollar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Aimee Hargrove had to rush her teenage son to an emergency surgery to remove his appendix. The boy spent a few days in the hospital to recover, and Hargrove hoped to spend that time with him.
But she couldn't miss work. Her district manager wouldn't give her the time off. Hargrove slept next to her son in the hospital and then still had to work the closing shift at the Family Dollar, staying until about 10 p.m. On top of that, Hargrove claims she was underpaid throughout her tenure at the store. She said she routinely worked up to 90 hours a week, far more than the 52 she was supposed to work as a salaried employee.
The former employees, who were largely managers, said they were generally paid less than $50,000 a year, with no overtime, even though they regularly worked long hours. Under US labor laws, employers generally don't need to pay managers overtime. But conversations with the former Family Dollar managers suggested that they were managers in name only and that the company may have called them that in order to avoid paying them overtime.
The former employees who spoke with Insider didn't sue Family Dollar in court. They weren't allowed to. That's because, like many corporations, Family Dollar now requires employees to sign away their right to benefit from a large-scale lawsuit.
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