Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating potential wage violations affecting hourly employees of C3 Industries / High Profile Cannabis dispensaries, including whether managers or supervisors participated in employee tip pools and whether certain bonuses or incentive compensation were properly included when calculating overtime.
High Profile Cannabis operates cannabis dispensaries with hourly retail employees and supervisory personnel. The company’s employment structure and incentive-driven retail environment make the handling of employee tips and performance compensation important areas for investigation. The underlying research identifies C3 Industries / High Profile Cannabis as a potentially promising target for both tip-pool and bonus regular-rate issues, although the available public evidence does not yet establish that either practice occurred companywide.
Federal law generally prohibits qualifying managers and supervisors from keeping portions of other employees’ tips. Federal overtime law can also require certain predetermined bonuses and incentive payments to be included in an employee’s regular rate when calculating overtime.
Migliaccio & Rathod is investigating whether High Profile Cannabis employees received all tips and overtime compensation to which they were entitled.
Employees May Have Experienced:
- Receiving cash or electronic tips from dispensary customers;
- Having customer tips combined into a common pool;
- Leads, supervisors, or managers participating in tip distributions;
- Receiving sales, performance, KPI, or other incentive bonuses;
- Working more than 40 hours during periods covered by those bonuses; and
- Having overtime calculated solely from their ordinary base hourly wage.
Potential Claims May Include:
- Improper manager or supervisor participation in employee tip pools;
- Unlawful retention of employee tips;
- Failure to include qualifying bonuses in the overtime regular rate;
- Underpayment of overtime compensation;
- Violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act; and
- Violations of applicable state wage laws.
Signs You May Be Affected:
- You worked for High Profile Cannabis or C3 Industries as an hourly dispensary employee;
- Your location pooled customer tips;
- Managers or supervisors received portions of employee tips;
- You received sales, KPI, performance, or other predetermined bonuses;
- You worked more than 40 hours during weeks covered by an incentive program; or
- Your overtime rate remained 1.5 times your base hourly wage despite receiving additional incentive compensation.
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