Pilot Corporation has agreed to pay 110 assistant managers $720,000 in back
wages and damages to resolve a Department of Labor complaint alleging overtime
violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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Download NowThe department says it filed the suit because the company, which is based in
Knoxville, Tennessee, failed to comply with a prior investigation that determined
assistant managers should have been paid overtime when they worked more than
40 hours in a work week. The department says the assistant managers were entitled
to overtime because they did not supervise two or more full-time employees and
supervision was not their primary duty.
After the prior investigation, the company had agreed to pay these employees
an overtime rate when appropriate, but failed to do so, according to the department.
The assistant managers worked at 52 of the company's convenience stores located
in Eastern Tennessee and Virginia.