Frito-Lay, makers of the popular Fritos, Tostitos and Doritos chips, routinely cheated more than 2,100 sales employees out of money owed for overtime work in California, according to a class action lawsuit.
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Frito-Lay denied any wrongdoing, but their position weakened considerably in 2011 after Carter overruled their objections to convert the case into a class action lawsuit and outlined his opinion that the company likely had violated the law.
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