Publix accused of employee wage theft in federal class-action lawsuit

Publix, the dominant supermarket chain in Florida and the southeastern United States, is accused of not paying several middle managers for work the company forced them to do off the clock, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Tampa. A failure to pay employees for work done would mean the nation’s seventh largest grocer committed a form of wage theft and violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. The lawsuit proposes a collective action to include all non-exempt, hourly paid assistant department managers who worked over 40 hours in a workweek in a Publix store after Oct. 18, 2020. The lawsuit wa...