Mealey's (August 17, 2021, 8:47 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Aug. 13 largely denied a motion to dismiss a wage-and-hour and deceptive trade practices putative class lawsuit that was brought by au pairs against the agency that placed them with host families, finding that the agency was not entitled to derivative sovereign immunity and failed to show that the state claims were preempted by federal law or that it was not the au pairs’ employer....