Zillow Settles California Wage Class Action for $1.1 Million

Zillow Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle class claims that it underpaid inside sales employees in California, the plaintiffs informed a federal court.

Nicole Correa and John Balnicki alleged Zillow’s commission wage practices for sales executives and business consultants violated California’s labor code. Their claims centered on Zillow’s alleged practice of charging back a portion of customer cancellations and account terminations to its sales force’s commission payments, even if the cancellation had no relationship to anything the employee did.

The plaintiffs on March 26 asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for final ...