Safelite Faces Lawsuit Filed By Employee Who Claims They Failed to Pay Her Overtime

An assistant store manager who works at Safelite claims she was never paid overtime, despite the fact that she regularly worked more than 40 hours per week. She has since filed a lawsuit against Safelite for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). According to the lawsuit, the worker worked as an assistant store manager for Safelite in Brandon, Florida, since December of 2021. She sued Safelite Fulfillment on March 25, 2025. Safelite has since submitted a response on May 5. The worker claims that the company illegally classified her and other assistant store managers as being exempt from the FLSA overtime regulations and “willfully” withheld overtime pay.

As an assistant store manager, her lawsuit claims, she frequently worked more than 40 hours per week as a condition of her continued employment. She added that Safelite didn’t track the worker’s hours or those of the other assistant store managers. Her lawsuit alleges that the assistant store management routinely worked between 50 and 60 hours per week.

The FLSA requires employers to pay employees overtime unless they earn a salary over a certain threshold or serve in an administrative, professional, executive, computer, or external sales role. The worker claims she was paid $21.49 hourly, and her duties didn’t meet any classification that would exempt her from the FLSA’s overtime requirement. According to her suit, the worker’s job included “printing and retrieving paperwork, answering customer phone calls, assisting walk-in customers, attending meetings, and following her employer’s procedures for processing returns and opening and closing the store. She, therefore, claims that an assistant store manager’s duties required little skill and no capital investment, nor did the aforementioned work include managerial responsibilities.

Safelite, on the other hand, claims that the worker earned an annual base salary of $63,500. The company also denied that it had any “policy or practice” of not paying overtime to non-exempt employees. It further denied that any “similarly situated assistant store managers” were shorted of their overtime payments by the company.

The worker alleges that “[Safelite’s] conduct has been widespread, repeated and consistent.” Safelite, nonetheless, still denies that there are any other assistant store managers in her position and, even if her claims are true, Safelite alleges that it didn’t “willfully” withhold her overtime pay.

The worker is asking the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, to grant a jury trial and let her and her lawyers notify other assistant store managers so that they could join the lawsuit. She also requested her unpaid overtime be paid, plus prejudgment and postjudgment interest, compensation for time spent on the lawsuit, and “reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal costs.”

Her lawsuit also asked the court to declare that Safelite’s assistant store manager payment practices are unlawful and to forbid them from continuing. At this point, there have been several hearings, but no trial date has been set.

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