Amazon Flex Driver Denied Massachusetts Court Look at Wage Issue

A delivery driver for Amazon.com Inc.'s Flex program lost his bid to send a question on Massachusetts wage law to the state’s top court after a federal judge said the century-old wage statute is already clear.

Bernard Waithaka wanted the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to weigh in after the US District Court for the Western District of Washington nixed his business expenses claim and declined to certify a class. But the Massachusetts Wage Act “was sufficiently clear and the question was not wholly novel,” which is “unsurprising” given that the statute “has been in place for well over a century,” ...