Abercrombie Will Pay Millions To Employees

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The company will have to reward more than 200,000 employees for forcing them to buy the brand's clothing for work.

Working in a popular store has its advantages. Apart from being the first to see the new styles, you receive discounts to buy the pieces you like. Although we cannot deny that this is sometimes a double-edged sword. And it is that many end up spending all the check in the same establishment. Now, in most stores, employees can buy what they want to use while they work, but they also have the freedom to put on clothes from other brands. However, employees of various establishments in the Abercrombie store claim that to work there they were forced to wear only clothes from the brand and from the sister store Hollister.

This is why the company was sued in 2013 by more than 260,000 employees in Los Angeles, New York, Florida and Massachusetts, who alleged that they were being forced to buy brand clothing for work and that the company never They reimbursed them. And it turns out that the law of these states requires that the money invested in the purchase of a uniform or clothing of a specific brand, be returned to the employee.

In addition, these employees accused the company of paying them the hours worked for less than the minimum wage and that even the discounts they offered did not help them with the expenses.

Although during the litigation Abercrombie assured that the employees bought the clothes on their own initiative and even signed a document after each purchase that stipulated that it had been voluntary, the company agreed to pay 25 million that will be distributed among the employees who are given them. he denied payment for the clothes they bought for work.

However, of those 25 million that the store will deposit in a fund, only 16.68 will reach employees, since the rest will go to lawyers.