Last-Mile Delivery Firm Fails to Force Wage Claim Arbitration

Priority Dispatch Inc. lost its bid make delivery drivers arbitrate their misclassification allegations after a judge ruled the workers fall under a carve-out to federal arbitration laws.

The last-mile delivery firm’s drivers are transportation workers exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, dooming Priority’s motion to send the case to private dispute resolution, the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said. The workers showed that their intrastate deliveries are part of a continuous interstate journey, the court said Wednesday.

The workers accuse Priority of misclassifying them as independent contractors when they’re really employees entitled to greater wage-and-hour ...