{"id":19219,"date":"2020-08-12T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/former-starbucks-canada-employee-sues-for-unpaid-ot-on-behalf-of-store-managers-148819"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:24:44","slug":"former-starbucks-canada-employee-suing-for-unpaid-ot-on-behalf-of-store-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/12\/former-starbucks-canada-employee-suing-for-unpaid-ot-on-behalf-of-store-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Starbucks Canada employee suing for unpaid OT on behalf of store managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Starbucks-iStock.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Former Starbucks Canada employee suing for unpaid OT on behalf of store managers\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>The Canadian Press<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 12, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>A former Starbucks Canada employee is suing the company for unpaid overtime for himself and other store managers.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Hopman is the lead plaintiff in a proposed class action that claims Starbucks was wrong to class store managers as exempt from overtime pay for work in excess of 44 hours per week. He worked for Starbucks in Toronto from 2010 through 2017 and is making the claim on behalf of all current and former managers at Starbucks-owned stores in Ontario from Oct. 1, 2014 or later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/human-resources\/other\/update-on-bill-47-and-changes-to-employment-standards-act-2000-125290\">A summary of Ontario\u2019s changing employment and labour legislation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suit, filed Aug. 7 by Toronto-based Goldblatt Partners LLP, asks the court to declare that Starbucks violated Ontario\u2019s Employment Standards Act.<\/p>\n<p>The claim, which requires court certification to proceed as a class action, seeks $50 million in general damages and $10 million in punitive damages, although it leaves the amounts to the court\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n<p>A Starbucks representative says the company is aware of the suit and will respond to its allegations in the course of litigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ontario-government-unveils-new-labour-standards-bill-120803\"><strong>Ontario government unveils new labour standards bill<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/former-starbucks-canada-employee-sues-for-unpaid-ot-on-behalf-of-store-managers-148819\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 12, 2020 A former Starbucks Canada employee is suing the company for unpaid overtime for himself and other store managers. Trevor Hopman is the lead plaintiff in a proposed class action&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}