UPS Gets Some Wage Claims Trimmed, Others Sent to Arbitration

United Parcel Service Inc. is free of some group wage-and-hour claims and can force one worker to arbitrate his individual allegations, a federal judge in California said.

One of the warehouse workers who accuses UPS of violating state labor laws signed an arbitration agreement with the shipping firm, and a second can’t pursue several of the ten causes of action, the US District Court for the Central District of California said, dismissing some of the claims without leave to amend.

Plaintiffs Stephen Thistlewaite and William Fecher Jr. loaded packages at UPS warehouses in California. They allege the company ran ...