Fitness club workers allege discrimination in Ohio

COLUMBUS (AP) — A Kentucky-based fitness center operator is being sued in Ohio by four former employees who say the company discriminated against them because of their race, sex or age.

The former Urban Active employees have filed a lawsuit in Franklin County against Global Fitness Holdings, which operates the chain. They allege it destroyed work records and didn’t pay wages they were promised.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the four want a judge to certify the case as a class-action lawsuit.

Urban Active said in an email to the newspaper that the company will fight the allegations and that they don’t have merit.

It also has indicated it will fight three lawsuits in Columbus and Cleveland that allege it’s been unfair and deceptive in member contracts and violated consumer-protection law.