Pre-Trial
Conference Set in ABRA Case
A pre-trial conference date will be held April 3 in the case filed
against ABRA Auto Body and Glass by two former employees alleging
that the company required customer service managers (CSMs) and customer
service representatives (CSRs) to work overtime without pay and
that it did so by misclassifying them as "managerial," which exempted
them from overtime pay. (CLICK
HERE for related story.) The conference will be held before
the Honorable Paul A. Magnuson in St. Paul, Minn.
The original suit was filed by Halunen and Associates, representing
Thomas Hale and Justin Schreckenstein. Since the original class-action
suit was filed, four more employees have joined the suit. (CLICK
HERE for related story.)
The suit was filed on July 17, 2007, in the U.S. District Court
in Minnesota, and the plaintiffs' complaint was amended on November
27, 2007, when the former employees added allegations that ABRA
violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to
the original complaint (CLICK
HERE for related story.)
ABRA also recently filed a motion asking the court to dismiss the
plaintiffs' ERISA claims and to strike the prayer for relief pertaining
to ERISA claims. CLICK
HERE for full text of document announcing pre-trial conference.
CLICK
HERE for full text of ABRA's notice of motion.
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