The Supreme Court announced it will consider whether an hourly fast-food worker allegedly denied overtime pay is required to take her proposed wage-and-hour class-action lawsuit against a large Taco Bell franchisee to arbitration, instead of pursuing it in federal court. The case, Morgan v. Sundance Inc., court file 21-328, comes from the St. Louis, Missouri-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The Supreme Court okayed the petition for certiorari, or review, on Nov. 15, in an unsigned order. The respondent, Sundance Inc., owns upwards of 150 Taco Bell franchises throughout the country. The petitioner, Robyn Morgan, worked at one of those franchises in Osceola, Iowa, as an hourly employee for 3 months in 2015. Morgan was dismayed by the company’s policy of “shifting” hours that employees worked in one week and recording them for the following week so that the total number of recorded hours in any given week …
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