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Chipotle Class Action Lawsuit Now Includes over 10,000 Employees

September 1st, 2016 • Lawsuits & Litigation • 1 minute read
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Author Andrea Tucker

Chipotle Class Action Lawsuit Now Includes over 10,000 Employees

In 2014, a Chipotle class action lawsuit, Turner et al. v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. was filed against Chipotle by hourly workers at its restaurants nationwide. The lawsuit was certified as a class in August, 2015. According to the New York Daily News, since the class action was certified almost 10,000 employees have joined the lawsuit. Chipotle operates more than 1,800 stores nationwide and has over 217,000 employees drawing an hourly wage in the United States.

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It will be interesting to see the outcome in this case. I would suggest that, given the huge fast food industry in the U.S., the allegations in these cases are not limited to Chipotle. It could be that more lawsuits will be filed in the future by restaurant employees in other companies that are being taken advantage of in this same manner.

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Turner et al. v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.New York Daily NewsHarris et al. v. Chipotle
Andrea Tucker

About Andrea Tucker

Andrea has been writing full-time since 2008. Before she became a full-time freelance writer, she was employed as a paralegal for 14 years. Her legal employment duties included writing law-related documents such as Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law, Memorandums of Law, miscellaneous letters, responses and completing investigative reports. She currently ghostwrites articles on a wide variety of topics.

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