NextEra Inks $9.5 Million Deal to Settle Wage Price-Fixing Case

NextEra Energy Inc. agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle antitrust claims that it conspired with other major nuclear power generation companies to illegally limit compensation for employees.

A notice of the proposed settlement, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, follows less than a year of litigation. Plaintiffs, who filed a proposed class action last July, said they will move for preliminary approval of the deal “in the near future.”

Former employees alleged the companies unlawfully exchanged information about worker pay and discussed ways to suppress compensation at meetings as well as through email ...