About 3,000 T.J. Maxx assistant managers nationwide will be allowed to join a lawsuit against TJX Cos. for failure to pay overtime, following a federal court ruling this week.
The ruling, in US District Court for Eastern New York, grants conditional certification for a collective action lawsuit, similar to a class-action suit, which was filed in early 2011 by a former assistant manager in New York. The complaint alleges that the Framingham company regularly required Mohammed M. Ahmed and other salaried assistant managers to perform duties usually done by hourly workers, such as running the cash registers and unloading delivery trucks, without paying them overtime when they worked more than 40 hours a week.
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This is the next area of labor that is in need of serious upheaval. Hourly workers have all the protections and laws, upper management has all the perks, and the low-middle level managers do the brunt of the hard work for what could be unlimited amount of hours for no extra pay. These days it is better to stay as an hourly worker than to go into entry-level management. That has to change.