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Dick's Sporting Goods Assistant Store Managers (Hardlines, Softlines, and Sales Support) Overtime Class/Collective Action

Assistant Store Managers claim that they worked overtime but were not paid for it because Dick's Sporting Goods misclassified them as exempt employees, in violation of fair wage practices. They claim that they should have been classified as non-exempt employees because they performed little, to no, managerial duties, and primarily spent their time performing non-managerial tasks throughout the work day like cleaning, stocking, and running cash registers, and other non-management things. They claim that they spent a greater percentage of their workday performing the same tasks as hourly employees, but unlike the hourly employees, the Assistant Store Managers worked extremely long, hard hours, but were not paid overtime. As a result, the they believe they were entitled to be paid overtime for their time pursuant to both federal and state law. The classification of the Assistant Managers as exempt from overtime wages has very often been determined to violate the law.