A federal judge denied an exterior building products manufacturer’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company engaged in wage-and-hour abuses against its hourly-paid or non-exempt employees in Washington.
Cornerstone Building Brands Services Inc. (an affiliated corporate entity of Cornerstone Building Brands, a North Carolina-based manufacturer with offices throughout the United States, and producer of Ply Gem, Simonton, Harvey and other door and window brands), faces a civil lawsuit filed by a former hourly-paid, non-exempt field service coordinator at the company’s Spokane, Washington, facility. Margeaux Hesterly alleges that during her roughly three years with the company, she experienced what she describes as various wage-and-hour violations, including “non-compliant meal and rest breaks, off-the-clock work, unpaid or underpaid overtime, sick leave violations and personnel file violations.”
According to court documents, Hesterly states that while she was often scheduled to work Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., she ended up working “significantly more hours in the evenings, on the weekends and during her legally protected breaks.” She also alleges that she was routinely interrupted during meal breaks and was told to work during breaks at the request of her supervisor…