Mealey's (December 19, 2018, 1:18 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge issued an order on Dec. 7 preliminarily approving a $7.4 million class action settlement to resolve a lawsuit in which a former Dave & Buster’s Inc. employee accused the chain of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by reducing the hours of its work force in 2013 to avoid the costs associated with providing health insurance to its full-time employees in compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Maria De Lourdes Parra Marin, on behalf of herself and all other persons similarly situated v. Dave & Buster’s, Inc., et al., No. 15-3608, S.D. N.Y.)....