Giant Eagle settles over unpaid overtime lawsuit filed by former GetGo team leader in Indianapolis

O’Hara-based Giant Eagle Inc. has agreed to pay out up to $4.2 million along with attorney’s fees to a group of store managers known as “senior team leaders” in company parlance over alleged federal Fair Labor Standards Act violations, according to legal documents.

A settlement was finalized in court a little more than a week ago over a “collective action” lawsuit originally filed in April 2018 by Andrew Fitch, a former senior team leader of a GetGo store in Indianapolis.

Fitch, described in legal documents as no longer with the company, alleges that he was owed overtime pay due to the customer service workload demand he operated under with the company, which had classified him and others as exempt from overtime provisions, essentially deeming them as management.

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