Industrial Cleaners Land Class Status for Part of Overtime Case

Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. workers can pursue one of their wage claims as a class and partially defeated the company’s bid to decertify their collective action.

The workers meet the class certification requirements for their mandatory training overtime pay claim against the hazardous waste management and industrial cleaning company, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said. But they didn’t demonstrate that their non-billable work overtime claim is provable through common evidence, the Wednesday opinion added.

• The workers allege Clean Harbors ran afoul of New Jersey wage law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ...