FedEx Driver’s Minimum Wage Class Claim Fails Due To Piecework Exception

Mealey's (August 15, 2019, 11:41 AM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A delivery driver failed to show that FedEx Ground Package System Inc. violated New Mexico’s Minimum Wage Act (MWA) as the work she performed fell under the act’s “piecework” exemption, a federal judge in New Mexico ruled Aug. 6, granting FedEx’s motion for summary judgment and denying as moot the driver’s motion for class certification (Jaime Loree Armijo, et al. v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., No. 17-440, D. N.M., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132546)....