Winco Worker Gets Immediate Appeal of Class Vacation Pay Issue

A former Winco Holdings Inc. worker can ask the Ninth Circuit to review whether a union may waive employees’ accrued vacation wages under a collective bargaining agreement, a federal judge ruled.

The June 26 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California could lead to the revival of Shirley Jaco’s proposed class claim under the state’s labor law.

Winco failed to pay her and similarly situated workers for their unused vacation at the time of their terminations, she says. Jaco, a bakery worker and cashier at a Modesto, Calif., store, was fired at age 75 allegedly ...