Warehouse Worker Arbitration Fight Escapes Justices’ Scrutiny

A California warehouse staffing company failed to secure a chance to push a proposed wage-and-hour class action into arbitration after the US Supreme Court declined to reconsider a lower court’s ruling that a former worker’s job duties fall within a federal carveout for transportation workers.

The justices’ decision on Monday maintains a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimous order that the job description of former Randstad Inhouse Services LLC worker Adan Ortiz, who alleged violations of California wage-and-hour laws, meets the benchmarks set out in a recent Supreme Court case that clarified the scope of the Federal ...