Amazon, Flex Drivers Fight Over Arbitration at Ninth Circuit

Amazon.com Inc. and delivery drivers who say it withheld some of their tips made their cases to the Ninth Circuit Monday in a fight over the applicability of an arbitration exemption for transportation workers.

The online retailer argued that the district judge shouldn’t have allowed the drivers to use the Federal Arbitration Act exemption—which comes into play for workers engaged in interstate commerce—to keep their case in court because the tip-related claims are based on local deliveries.

But what matters is the type of work that the class of workers to which the delivery drivers belong performs, the drivers told ...