Amazon Drivers Get Early Nod for Collective Overtime, Wage Suit

Amazon.com Flex drivers claiming the company misclassified them as independent contractors got conditional approval from a federal judge Monday to proceed with a collective action.

• The drivers have made the “modest factual showing” that the potential collective action members were all impacted by the same Amazon worker classification policy, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington said
• The ruling allows the plaintiffs to give notice to potential members— individuals who worked as Amazon Flex delivery drivers on or after October 27, 2013—and tolled the statute of limitations for members to October 27, 2016, the date the workers ...