Levine v. Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc.

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:20-cv-00261

Court:

Colorado

Nature of Suit:

Labor: Fair Standards

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Scott T. Varholak

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  1. October 26, 2023

    Grocery Store, Ex-Assistant Manager End OT Suit

    A Colorado federal court dismissed Thursday a former assistant manager's suit alleging a natural-foods grocery store illegally deprived him of overtime pay, days after a federal judge declined to grant either party a win. 

  2. October 20, 2023

    Grocery Store Can't Slip Ex-Manager's OT Suit

    A natural grocery store chain can't get out of a former assistant manager's lawsuit alleging it wrongly denied him overtime, with a Colorado federal judge ruling there are too many factual disputes regarding the ex-manager's primary duties to grant either side an early win.

  3. August 02, 2023

    Ex-Grocery Manager Wants Early Win in OT Suit

    A former grocery store assistant manager urged a Colorado federal judge to side with him on his overtime pay and liquidated damages claims in his lawsuit alleging he and a now-decertified collective of managers were misclassified as overtime-exempt, arguing he should not have been included in the exemption.

  4. May 26, 2023

    Magistrate Decertifies Grocery Managers' Class In OT Suit

    A Colorado magistrate judge dissolved a class of grocery store assistant managers in a former assistant manager's lawsuit alleging they were misclassified as overtime-exempt, ruling the ex-manager couldn't prove all the workers were similarly entitled to nonexempt status.

  5. February 23, 2023

    Grocery Worker Says Overtime Case Is Made For Class Action

    A former assistant store manager accusing a Colorado grocery store chain of misclassifying him and other workers with the same title as exempt from overtime pay has described his case as the type "for which the class action device is designed."

  6. December 08, 2022

    Grocery Chain Says Collective Can't Stand In OT Dispute

    A collective of assistant store managers accusing a national grocery store chain of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt can't stand, the company told a Colorado federal court, saying that the workers are too different from each other.

  7. September 28, 2021

    Grocery Chain Gets OK To Arbitrate Misclassification Claims

    A national grocery store chain won a bid to arbitrate claims by assistant managers who alleged that the company illegally classified them as exempt from overtime, but was stopped short in its bid to toss the claims altogether, according to a ruling in Colorado federal court.

  8. November 09, 2020

    Supermarket Assistant Managers Get Cert. In Colo. OT Suit

    Assistant managers of a national grocery chain secured preliminary certification of their wage and hour collective action in a Colorado federal court after a judge found there was enough testimony about the nature of their work that they could bring a lawsuit on behalf of others.