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In Re: Jimmy John's Overtime Litigation

  1. June 09, 2021

    Attys Score $1.1M Payday From $1.8M Jimmy John's OT Deal

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday gave his final blessing to a roughly $1.8 million settlement resolving claims that Jimmy John's unlawfully misclassified a group of managers as overtime-exempt, and awarded $1.1 million in attorney fees for the managers' counsel.

  2. February 16, 2021

    Jimmy John's To Pay $1.8M To Settle OT Row

    Jimmy John's has agreed to pay roughly $1.8 million to resolve years-long litigation brought by workers who say they were wrongly classified as overtime-exempt managers when they spent the vast majority of their work hours performing nonexempt tasks such as making sandwiches and operating registers.

  3. June 26, 2018

    Jimmy John's Not Joint Employer Of Franchisee Workers

    Sandwich company Jimmy John's does not jointly employ, along with its franchisees, a proposed collective of assistant store managers who claim they were illegally misclassified as exempt from overtime, an Illinois federal judge ruled in an opinion unsealed Tuesday.

  4. May 18, 2017

    Jimmy John's Aims To Toss Joint-Employer Claim In OT Suit

    Sandwich chain Jimmy John's on Wednesday asked an Illinois federal court to toss in part an overtime compensation suit against it, arguing that courts are nearly unanimous in saying that franchisors are not joint employers of their franchisees' workers.

  5. August 19, 2016

    Jimmy John's Chided For 'Unwanted' Cover Letter In OT Row

    An Illinois federal judge admonished sandwich chain Jimmy John's on Friday for submitting an "unnecessary" and "unwanted" cover letter to the court, when all the judge asked for was a list of topics for a deposition in an overtime compensation suit.

  6. January 05, 2016

    Jimmy John's Franchisees Say Consolidation Would Be Costly

    A group of Illinois Jimmy John's franchise owners facing a putative class action suit over overtime wages asked a federal court there on Monday to keep their case separate from similar litigation in Ohio, saying such expansion of scope is unwarranted and would make their suit too costly to defend.

  7. December 11, 2015

    Jimmy John's Workers Can Submit FLSA Statements

    A Fair Labor Standards Act class action filed by a group of Jimmy John's workers who claim they were stiffed on overtime overcame an early challenge when an Illinois federal court on Friday allowed statements from the workers to be admitted as evidence.

  8. November 18, 2015

    Jimmy John's Wants Cert. Revoked In Managers' OT Action

    Jimmy John's asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to revisit a recent decision that conditionally certified a collective action accusing the sandwich chain of misclassifying assistant store managers as exempt from overtime pay, calling it "unfair."

  9. September 25, 2015

    Jimmy John's Slams Cert. Motion In Managers' OT Action

    Jimmy John's urged an Illinois federal court Thursday to deny class certification to assistant store managers accusing the sandwich chain of misclassifying them as exempt from overtime pay under federal law, saying the plaintiffs haven't established the legal foundation to justify their bid.

  10. July 29, 2015

    Jimmy John's Loses Bid To Consolidate Worker FLSA Suits

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday denied a request from Jimmy John's Enterprises Inc. to consolidate a putative class action and a proposed collective action that both claim the chain's franchisees misclassified employees as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act to deny them minimum wage and overtime pay.

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