MLB Effort to Undo Class Claims Meritless, Minor Leaguers Say

Major League Baseball is attempting to “rehash” arguments in an effort to decertify minor league baseball players’ wage and hour claims that were certified as a class action in several states and as a federal case, the players told the Northern District of California.

The league argued that the players failed to deliver on assurances to the court that classwide liability was limited to hours spent performing “team related activities.”

And the players’ use of arrival and departure times to document their working hours, “rather than their participation in ‘team-related activities,’” would open the league to liability for more hours ...