Settlement Class Provisionally Certified; Approval Denied In Home Depot Pay Dispute

Mealey's (July 28, 2022, 1:32 PM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal magistrate judge in California on July 19 provisionally certified a settlement class in a wage-and-hour case against Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. but denied preliminary approval of the $750,000 class and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) settlement, finding in part an inability to determine the reasonableness of the settlement amount, including the portion for the PAGA claim....