Walmart Workers Seek Nod for Nearly $1.5 Million Wage Suit Deal

Wal-Mart Associates Inc. and warehouse workers who say it stiffed them on pay for necessary pre-shift work reached a deal to settle their wage-and-hour dispute for nearly $1.5 million.

The deal will give nearly 4,000 workers at two warehouses—one in Nevada, the other in South Carolina—approximately $888,000 after accounting for attorneys’ fees and other costs related to litigating and settling the case, according to a memo filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Nevada as part of the preliminary approval motion.

Walmart allegedly failed to pay distribution center workers in McCarran, Nev., and Pageland, S.C., for ...