Prisoners working at a government-owned recycling center asked a federal judge to sign off on a $1.4 million deal resolving their wage-and-hour class action against Baltimore County.
The settlement provides people who worked at the recycling center during their incarceration with twice as much money as they lost due to underpayment, according to the final approval documents filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland. The parties separately negotiated an additional $2.3 million in attorneys’ fees and court costs for Hoffman Employment Law LLC, which which represented the workers.
Two years ago the US Court of ...
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