December 02, 2020
In-house recruiters for the Kroger Co. lost most of their early bid to hold the company liable for misclassifying them as exempt from overtime pay when an Ohio federal judge found that their position involved using enough discretion to justify the grocer's classification decision.
February 10, 2016
Kroger Co. on Tuesday was smacked with a proposed class action in Ohio federal court by a group of former in-house recruiters claiming they were denied overtime pay through the grocery chain's intentional misclassification of them as exempt employees, a violation of federal and state labor laws.