February 25, 2021
Barnes & Noble will pay $200,000 to a group of former cafe workers to resolve claims that it unlawfully denied them overtime pay, as well as $700,000 to cover attorney fees and costs in the four-and-a-half-year-old case, the workers told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday.
August 27, 2020
A New York federal court has shut down Barnes & Noble Inc.'s bid to not turn over certain communications between executives and company counsel in a wage and hour dispute with former store cafe managers who claim they were misclassified, saying the company had forfeited attorney-client privilege.
October 25, 2019
Former Barnes & Noble cafe managers accusing the bookstore giant of misclassifying them as overtime exempt have asked a New York federal judge to make the company fork over documents containing discussions over reclassifying workers as nonexempt after a now-voided Obama era adjustment to federal overtime requirements.
October 15, 2019
A New York federal judge has adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation not to certify a proposed class action accusing Barnes & Noble of misclassifying cafe managers as being ineligible for overtime pay.
June 26, 2018
A New York federal magistrate judge again denied class certification to a group of Barnes & Noble Inc. cafe managers who claim the bookstore giant misclassified them as exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, handing down her ruling in light of a recent Supreme Court decision.
July 28, 2017
A New York magistrate judge on Friday decided not to suspend the statute of limitations for certain members in a proposed class of Barnes & Noble Inc. cafe managers who allege the bookstore giant misclassified them as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, saying there are no extraordinary circumstances that would warrant such an action.
May 02, 2017
A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied conditional certification to a proposed class of Barnes & Noble Inc. cafe managers who alleged the bookstore giant misclassified them as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, saying the evidence to clear this first hurdle was "too thin."
September 20, 2016
A Barnes & Noble cafe manager launched a proposed class action lawsuit in New York federal court on Tuesday alleging the bookstore giant classified managers as salaried employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act in order to avoid paying overtime, even though they perform a similar job function to nonexempt workers.