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For years retail sales representatives (RSRs) at Hershey were denied recognition of the value of their labor and were not paid for their overtime. Working up to 20 hours per week left them uncompensated. So a group of courageous people filed a lawsuit and sought to hold Hershey accountable for its conduct. A federal court […]
According to its website the company founded by Milton S. Hershey, who gave the masses access to chocolate and whose philanthropy made education possible for countless young orphans while amassing an incredible fortune, transferred his ownership and a great deal of his wealth to the Hershey Trust to be held for the Hershey Industrial School. […]
On March 29, 2013, the Honorable Kandis Westmore of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied Hershey’s request that it be granted leave to immediately appeal the District Court’s earlier ruling that the Hershey Retail Sales Representatives (“RSRs”) were entitled to overtime at 1.5 x their hourly rate for all […]
On February 20, 2013, the Honorable Kandis A. Westmore, United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California, issued an order providing that the approximately 150 Hershey Retail Sales Representatives (“RSRs”) who were seeking overtime pay would be compensated at an hourly rate of 1.5 (time-and-a-half) and not at the .5 rate (half-time) that […]
The Brandi Law Firm has been involved in three cases on behalf of workers at Hershey seeking payments wrongfully denied them. In Campanelli Vs Hershey, over 120 retail sales representatives (RSRs) brought suit for unpaid overtime. This case settled shortly after a Court finding in favor of Plaintiffs that they were entitled to overtime, which […]
If you are/were a California RSR you have a four year window. Here is your notice All individuals who are or were employed by The Hershey Company as a Retail Sales Representative in California from any time up to four years prior to the date the individual’s “Consent to Join” is filed to January 28, […]
In the first Hershey overtime case (Campanelli vs Hershey), 120 current and former RSRs joined the litigation, 31 of which were currently employed as RSRs. All participated in the settlement. In the current litigation, more than 60 current RSRs have joined the suit to obtain the unpaid compensation wrongfully denied them by Hershey, and the […]
If you are a former Hershey RSR who left the company before January 1, 2012, it is possible you did not receive notice of your ability to join the Hershey over time lawsuit and potentially receive compensation for your many hours of unpaid overtime. If you are a former RSR who worked for Hershey over […]
111 present and some former RSR’s have thus far joined the Hershey overtime lawsuit seeking fair compensation for unpaid overtime. (Case Number 3:11-CV-05117-BZ). Previously, Hon. Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman ruled in the first Hershey overtime case that employees were not exempt from overtime. That case then settled but Hershey did not change its overtime practices […]
On June 5, 2012 the Hon. Magistrate Bernard Zimmerman filed a new Order extending the Time to join the Hershey RSR overtime lawsuit to July 13, 2012 for those RSRs who Hershey provided incorrect addresses which resulted in 86% of eligible RSRs not receiving correct notice of their rights. (Case Number 3:11-CV-05117-BZ) Mailing of corrected […]
Hershey was ordered by the Court to provide the names and addresses of RSRs so that we could provide RSRs with a Court approved Notice of their right to join the Hershey RSR Overtime Case. (Case Number 3:11-CV-05117-BZ) However, 86% of the contact information we were provided was incorrect. As a result of Hershey’s error, […]
We have just learned that the Court ordered Notice was not sent to the correct addresses of all present and former RSR’s due to incorrect addresses being supplied by the Hershey Company. We are working to rectify this and the Notice will be re sent as soon as Hershey provides the correct addresses. If you […]
United States Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman has ordered that present and past Retail Sales Representatives (“RSRs”) who worked for The Hershey Company (“Hershey”) are entitled to Notice and the opportunity to join a lawsuit pending in United States District Court in San Francisco for unpaid overtime and related damages. Judge Zimmerman’s Order provides that present […]
Seventy-five present and former Retail Sales Representatives (RSR) have joined the action filed in US District Court in San Francisco seeking unpaid overtime from the chocolate giant. (Case Number 3:11-CV-05117-BZ) Previously this office represented over 100 RSRs seeking unpaid overtime in a wage and hour Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA) collective action. On February […]
In the economy of the day, many people are forced to work long hours. Many companies require them to do so and workers are reluctant to complain for fear of losing their jobs. Not all people are entitled to overtime because certain classifications of workers are exempt. However, sometimes people are classified as exempt from […]
In 2008, three former Retail Sales Representatives (RSRs) brought this wage and hour action against defendant. They alleged defendant misclassified them as exempt employees, denying them compensation for the overtime hours they had worked. Defendant denied these allegations, asserting that plaintiffs’ employment position satisfies the exemptions from overtime for outside salesmen and administrative employees. Defendant […]
On February 23, 2011, the Honorable Magistrate Bernard Zimmerman, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, issued an order holding that the Hershey Retail Sales Representative (“RSR”) plaintiffs and those RSRs who have joined the case of Campanelli, et al. v. The Hershey Company, Case No. 3:08-cv-01862-BZ, are entitled to overtime compensation. […]
Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, has ruled that all Retail Sales Representatives (RSRs) employed by The Hershey Company in the United States from August 2007 through the present may join a lawsuit pending before the Court seeking past overtime pay.