Wal-Mart Employees Class Awarded More Than $101M In Damages, Penalties

Mealey's (June 6, 2019, 10:16 AM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — In May 31 findings of fact and conclusions of law, a federal judge in California awarded a class of Wal-Mart workers more than $48 million in statutory damages for wage statement violations and more than $51 million in California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) penalties (Roderick Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., et al., No. 17-62, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91792)....