CentiMark’s $600,000 Wage Deal With Roofer Gets Initial Nod

A $600,000 class deal between CentiMark Corp. and a roofer to end his wage-and-hour lawsuit received preliminary approval despite lingering questions from a federal judge.

The worker initially saw his proposed settlement rejected after the US District Court for the Eastern District of California expressed concerns about collusion, among other things. The renewed settlement proposes a class of about 241 non-exempt non-administrative employees.

• “It is a close call,” Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said, ruling she was “likely to approve the settlement as fair, reasonable and adequate.”
• The worker must demonstrate that “the negotiations before the mediator were ‘contentious and adversarial,’” ...