Workers, Walmart Reach $5.2M Class Settlement In COVID-19 Screening Suit

(January 3, 2024, 9:33 AM EST) -- FRESNO, Calif. — Workers who sued Walmart Inc. in a federal court in California alleging that the retailer’s policy requiring nonexempt workers in California to undergo a COVID-19 screening each shift without pay violated state and federal wage-and-hour laws as well as California’s unfair competition law filed a motion for preliminary approval of a $5.2 million class settlement....