Overtime Lawsuit Filed for Planet Fitness Salaried Employees

Coffman Employment Lawyers recently filed a new collective action lawsuit against a Planet Fitness franchisee (“Planet Fitness”), alleging that they have failed to pay overtime wages to “salaried” workers, such as General Managers, Club Managers, and Site Managers.

What is the Overtime Lawsuit Against Planet Fitness About?

On August 13, 2025, Coffman Employment Lawyers filed a new lawsuit against Planet Fitness on behalf of all past and present “salaried” workers from the past three years. The lawsuit alleges that Planet Fitness failed to pay employees on a “salary basis,” a necessary prerequisite for exempt employees to qualify for not receiving overtime wages. Despite the employees regularly working more than 40 hours in workweeks, the lawsuit alleges that they were not paid any overtime compensation. Thus, the lawsuit claims that Planet Fitness failed to properly compensate them for their overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In particular, the overtime lawsuit states that employees were not paid on a “salary basis” because their “salary” was subject to variations based on the number of hours worked each workweek. In other words, the employees received their “salary” only if they worked the minimum hours required to receive the “salary.” When employees worked fewer than the minimum required hours, their salary was docked or reduced according to the number of hours they worked.

The lawsuit alleges that these Planet Fitness employees do not meet the exemptions because they were not paid on a “salary basis,” since their “salary” was subject to a reduction based on variation in the number of hours worked each workweek. If the employees were not paid a “salary,” they were entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked over forty in a workweek.

What Could I Recover from the Lawsuit?

This new lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, and is titled Powell v. TG3 Enterprises, Inc., Case No. 2:24-cv-912. The lawsuit seeks unpaid overtime for the past three years, additional liquidated damages, attorney’s fees, and costs. In other words, if employees were not paid on a “salary basis,” they may be owed overtime at 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. They could also receive liquidated damages equal to the unpaid overtime wages and other compensation.