WHOLE FOODS accused of cheating workers out of bonuses in class-action lawsuit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/whole-foods-accused-of-cheating-workers-out-of-bonuses-in-class-action-lawsuit/2016/12/21/104dfd7c-c705-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html

Under gainsharing, the lawsuit alleges, employees of departments that come in under budget are supposed to share in surpluses, but Whole Foods avoided paying by shifting labor costs to other departments. The chain also created “fast teams” — employees that “float from one department to another” and “shifted labor costs among departments without properly accounting for it,” the lawsuit says.
A spokeswoman for Austin-based Whole Foods said the company is investigating the allegations.