Ex-Walgreens Workers Get First Approval for $2.5 Million Deal

Walgreens and a class of fired workers won preliminary approval to settle the class suit that alleges the employees didn’t receive their final paycheck in a timely fashion.

Walgreens’ pharmacy services units in Midwestern, Eastern, and Western regions agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle the case, said Judge Michael W. Mosman of the US District Court for the District of Oregon in a Monday order. Class counsel is set to receive one-third of that amount, $833,333, if the deal is finalized, according to the Jan. 16 declaration from one of the attorneys for the class and named plaintiff Taylor ...