Legal & Courts  July 8, 2020

Lawsuit calls for overtime pay for King Soopers assistant managers

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DENVER — A Colorado man filed a class-action lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court in Denver alleging that King Soopers and parent firms The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Dillon Cos. LLC have systematically violated labor laws to withhold overtime pay from assistant store managers.

Attorneys for William Powell, a Littleton resident who worked at a Grand Junction King Soopers store from 2016 to 2019, claim that the grocery store giant incorrectly classifies assistant managers as exempt from overtime pay despite those employees having essentially the same job function as hourly employees who are eligible to…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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