Walmart Gets Final Approval in $2.5 Million Wage Settlement

Walmart Inc. will pay roughly $2.5 million to a class of nearly 80,000 workers after a federal judge signed off on a settlement reached in a wage-and-hour lawsuit over compensation related to Covid-19 screenings.

Judge Susan M. Brnovich granted the parties final approval on their settlement agreement on Monday, bringing an end to the more than three-year-old litigation. The class members, led by Kathy Arrison and Tristan Smith, will release their claims that Walmart violated labor laws when it failed to pay wages for time spent doing pandemic-related health screenings and failed to keep accurate records of related work.

“Plaintiffs ...