A former employee of Bank of America's Wichita call center has filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging he is owed unpaid wages.

Curtis Schreiber filed the lawsuit Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Schreiber alleges in the lawsuit that it is the bank's "policy and practice to deny earned wages and overtime pay to its hourly employees at its call center facilities," court documents said.

The lawsuit further alleges those policies and practices violate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

At issue is nonpayment for "preparatory activities" and activities at the end of a shift that "are integral and indispensable to (call center employees) principal work activity," court documents said.

Those activities include retrieval of headsets and other equipment and reviewing memoranda and e-mail before call center employees clock in for their shifts.

"Employees are not allowed to clock in until the beginning of their scheduled shift; however, they must be ready to take phone calls as soon as their shift begins," court documents said.

George Hanson, the Kansas City, Mo., lawyer representing Schreiber, said he is seeking to get the lawsuit certified as a class action.

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