Warehouse Worker’s Overtime, Pay-Delay Claims Can Move Forward

A storage and distribution firm must face allegations that it failed to pay manual workers on time or properly calculate their overtime rates after a federal judge mostly denied the company’s motion to throw out the case.

Findlay’s Tall Timbers Distribution Center LLC, which does business as Ohio Logistics, won’t have to face a warehouse worker’s wage statements claim, but the worker plausibly alleged that the company owes overtime and improperly paid manual laborers every two weeks instead of every week, the US District Court for the Western District of New York said Tuesday.

New York law requires that companies ...