C.H. Robinson Account Managers Seek $4.3 Million Wage Deal Nod

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. and account managers who say it misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay asked a federal judge in Illinois for permission to move forward with a $4.3 million settlement.

The deal ending the wage-and-hour dispute will give the 96 members of the certified class more than $29,000 apiece on average, and the workers won’t have to submit claims to receive the money, according to the preliminary settlement approval motion filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The class members—eight of whom also chose to join the Fair Labor Standards Act collective ...