Macy’s Fails to Force Employees’ Wage Case Into Arbitration

A former Macy’s Retail Holdings LLC store employee in California, who picked merchandise from shelves and prepared it for shipment, doesn’t have to arbitrate her wage and hour suit against the retailer, a federal court said.

Latrice Nelson’s suit falls under the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for workers who engage in interstate commerce, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said Tuesday for the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Nelson was a “fulfillment associate” for Macy’s. Her complaint said that she “handled, picked, packed, or processed packages or goods” for online orders and prepared them to be shipped either ...