Postal Service Nabs Dismissal of Mail Workers’ Overtime Claims

The US Postal Service is free for now from allegations that it automatically docked workers’ wages for meal breaks they never took, costing them overtime pay.

The four city carrier assistants filed their would-be Fair Labor Standards Act collective and proposed state-law class action against USPS in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey. But they failed to sufficiently allege that any of them worked for USPS in the state, so the court lacks personal jurisdiction over their claims, Judge Karen M. Williams said, dismissing the complaint and giving the workers 30 days to refile with ...