![]() The three cases cover the ARCs in The Salvation Army’s Central Territory, Eastern, and Southern Territories. For their difficult and sometimes dangerous labor transporting, sorting, repairing, and processing donated goods, The Salvation Army pays participants as little as $1 and no more than $25 per week, well below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and higher state minimum wages. ![]() The ARCs provide participants with room, board, and limited rehabilitation services, but require that participants work a minimum of forty hours per week for The Salvation Army’s thrift stores. In all of the cases, the plaintiffs-participants in The Salvation Army’s Adult Rehabilitation Centers (“ARCs”)-allege that The Salvation Army violates the Fair Labor Standard Act (“FLSA”) and applicable state laws by failing to pay the plaintiffs minimum wage. Clancy is one of three similar class and collective actions brought by Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP and its co-counsel, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP, against The Salvation Army. On January 31, 2023, Judge Manish Shah of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order denying Defendant The Salvation Army’s (“Defendant”) motion to dismiss in Clancy v.
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