Amazon Military Pay Suit Conditionally Certified as Class Action

Amazon.com Services LLC failed to defeat a bid for class status in a warehouse worker’s military-leave bias suit, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled, conditionally allowing the case to proceed with up to 9,000 potential class members.

The ruling advances a case that scrutinizes military leave policy at one of the nation’s largest employers as the Trump administration weighs ramping up National Guard deployments among cities including Chicago and New York.

The suit raises legal questions common to the class as a whole that could determine whether they’re entitled to damages for being underpaid for their military leave, the judge said. ...