Cox, California Cable Installers Seek OK of $1.85 Million Deal

Cox Communications Inc. and its subsidiary in California would pay $1.85 million to resolve a class action alleging the cable giant underpaid more than 600 installers through its time-rounding policy, under a deal put before a federal judge on Friday.

Christone Feltzs filed suit in 2019, and the class was certified in June. The class includes technicians who installed cable for Cox customers in San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara and challenges Cox’s system of rounding the workers’ time entries to the nearest 15-minute increment.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in ...