Yellow’s Ex-Employees Get Class Certified Amid Bankruptcy

Yellow Corp. employees who say they were improperly laid off before the company’s bankruptcy can proceed with a class action suit, a judge said.

A group of former employees allege they weren’t given a legally required 60-day notice that they would be terminated in a mass layoff. Labor and pension disputes have been central to Yellow’s bankruptcy, which was filed last summer after it abruptly dismissed about 30,000 workers and ceased operating.

Judge Craig T. Goldblatt of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware indicated at a hearing Thursday he would certify a class of former employees to ...