According to the lawsuit, more than 100 employees from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland are owed compensation for overtime work.
CAMDEN -- A group of former Wawa employees filed a lawsuit against the chain claiming they were wrongfully denied overtime pay as assistant managers and required to do work that didn't fit their job description.
The suit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Camden, calls for overtime pay and financial damages for more than 100 Wawa employees from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland stores.
The four employees who filed the lawsuit -- Anthony Gervasio, of Riverside; Richard Bongiovanni, of Morrisville, Pa.; Michael Dinse of Brick; and Jame Cloud, of Maryland -- claim that the store's overtime policy for assistant general managers violates federal and state laws because it insists that assistant general managers are exempt from overtime pay.
In the lawsuit, the men alleged that Wawa "willfully [failed] to provide enough money in its store-level labor budgets for its non-exempt employees to perform their duties and responsibilities."
This lack of budget forced assistant general managers to handle tasks "that did not include managerial responsibilities" such as working registers, making sandwiches, stocking shelves and cleaning.
These extra duties caused Gervasio, Bongiovanni, Dinse and Cloud, as well as many other employees in similar positions, to work anywhere between 50 to 60 hours away numerous times without receiving pay or overtime compensation, according to court documents.
Wawa representatives did not immediately return requests for comment.
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