Lawsuits Loom For J Crew and Abercrombie

J Crew is the latest high-profile retailer to have legal proceedings brought against it, this time regarding a disagreement concerning unpaid overtime.

Former employee Andrew Duberry, who worked for the company between 2010 and 2013, alleges that the fashion brand refused to pay him appropriately for extra hours that he worked and "engaged in a uniform policy and systematic scheme of wage abuse against their hourly paid or nonexempt employees within the State of California and the policy of denying wages for off-the-clock work and missed meal breaks means that store employees were often not paid minimum wage", reports The Fashion Law. According to the lawsuit, approximately 250 more California store employees are also due compensation for overtime hours worked.

Abercrombie & Fitch

The case coincides with a similar legal action brought against Abercrombie & Fitch by former employee Samantha Jones, who worked for its Hollister label from December 2005 to January 2014. She alledges that the brand "as a matter of corporate policy, practice and procedure, intentionally, knowingly and systematically failed to compensate plaintiff and the class members for all hours worked (for on-call time), and undercompensated them for overtime worked that should have been paid at overtime rates had the on-call time been paid for."

J Crew declined to comment on the litigation this morning, while Abercrombie & Fitch could not be reached.