CentiMark Roofer Wage Class Settlement Fails to Get First Nod

CentiMark Corp.‘s deal to end a roofer’s wage-and-hour lawsuit failed to get preliminary approval after a federal judge said it was unclear if the settlement was fair.

The employee alleged the commercial roofing company withheld workers’ wages, misreported their pay, and deprived him and his colleagues full rest and meal breaks. But it was unclear if $255,000 was adequate recovery for the class, or that a proposed $240,000 fee award, which “allocates nearly as much to the attorneys, administrators and named plaintiff as it does to all of the other members,” was reasonable, Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, of the ...