Vasquez v. Whole Foods Market, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) VICTOR VASQUEZ, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) Case No. 17-cv-00112 (APM) WHOLE FOODS MARKET, INC., et al., ) ) Defendants. ) _________________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER I. Plaintiffs are nine former Store Team Leaders for various Whole Foods grocery stores in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. 1 Each was terminated after a corporate internal investigation revealed that they had engaged in “labor-shifting” in connection with an employee bonus program,…