Luxury Car Service Gets Former Drivers’ Wage Claims Pared Back

A luxury car service convinced a federal judge to throw out a group of former limousine drivers’ proposed class wage-and-hour claims based on New York law.

The drivers say Savoya LLC ran afoul of both state and federal law when it allegedly misclassified them as independent contractors when they’re really employees entitled to greater wage protections. Their Fair Labor Standards Act claims don’t preempt the state ones, but the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas still decided to decline supplemental jurisdiction over the New York allegations Wednesday.

Plaintiffs Henry Huseyin Cuhadar and Gurhan Ergezer allege they lost ...