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Logistics and staffing firms agree to pay $1.9 million to settle lawsuit

June 25, 2018

A settlement has been reached in a long-running lawsuit between logistics companies and staffing firms. Bloomberg reports the companies will pay $1.9 million to end the lawsuits that involved wage and hour issues at warehouses in Wilmington, Calif., that served Amazon.

The lawsuit was first filed in 2014; among the initial complaints were violations of the area’s living wage statute, failure to pay overtime and failure to pay minimum wage, according to court records.

Affected workers would include those who worked at the warehouses from Dec. 17, 2010, through June 19, 2018.

The settlement terminates the appeal of a separate $800,000 wage-and-hour class action lawsuit that involved California Cartage and others, according to Bloomberg.

Amazon is not a defendant in the lawsuit. Defendants in the case are California Cartage Company Inc., California Cartage Company LLC, Orient Tally Company, Staffing Systems Inc., SSI Staffing Inc. AMR Staffing Inc., Coordinated Staff Inc., Core Employee Management Inc., NFI Industries Inc. and California Transload Services LLC.

Final settlement approval is set for Oct. 25.

The case is Carlos Ayala, et al. vs. California Cartage Company Inc., et al. in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Case No. BC 566992.