Groupon Hit With New Lawsuit 
 
 September can’t end soon enough for Groupon. The month brought a string of staff departures, SEC spats and the indefinite shelving of the company’s long-awaited IPO. Now a second class of employees has filed a class action against Groupon over unpaid overtime. 
 
 In a Chicago federal court filing last week, a woman representing so-called “deal vetters” at Groupon claimed the company broke federal and state law by failing to pay overtime to those who worked over 40 hours a week. According to the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Doug Werman, deal vetters were responsible for reviewing the terms of the transactions between Groupon and the merchants with which it partners. The position has since been eliminated. 
 
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 The deal vetters’ proposed class action echoes a similar one filed in late August by Groupon salespeople. The salespeople in that suit recently amended their complaint to provide additional facts such as a sample work contract that reveals a starting salary of $32,000. 
 
 Groupon did not return requests for comment. 
 
 Werman said about 50 deal vetters are affected by the new lawsuit, while over 1,000 salespeople are covered by the earlier filing. In court proceedings today, a judge said that the parties could begin discovery, a procedure that will allow both sides to collect evidence to argue whether or not the class action should go forward. ||||| Groupon was hit with its second lawsuit in as many months from employees who said they were screwed out of their overtime. This comes shortly after the online discounter lost its COO, its sales chief, its IPO date, and its favorite bullshit accounting metric. It's almost as though Groupon is some sort of hive of misery and deceit! 
 
 The latest blow comes from a federal class action suit just filed in Chicago, covering 50 "deal vetters," employees responsible for reviewing Groupon's contract with merchants. The vetters, said PaidContent, allege they did not get overtime for working more than 40 hours per week. In addition, more than 1,000 of Groupon's salespeople are covered by an August class action also seeking overtime pay. 
 
 This is what happens when your top people take out a ludicrous $810 million in bonuses before the IPO: Everyone else in the operation starts looking real, real carefully at their own compensation. And, no, they won't give you a discount.
– Groupon employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company claiming unpaid overtime, the second such suit filed against the daily deals website in the past month. This time around, Groupon’s so-called “deal vetters”—a position that no longer exists—say they weren’t paid overtime when working more than 40 hours per week. The first class action, filed late last month, came from salespeople, Paid Content reports. About 1,000 employees were covered by that filing, while about 50 are affected by this most recent one. It hasn’t been a good month for Groupon: It saw a string of departing staff including, Gawker notes, its COO and sales chief; the planned IPO was shelved indefinitely; and the company has sparred with the SEC.