CLAIBORNE et al v. FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC.

  1. September 29, 2022

    No Decertification Yet In FedEx Driver OT Action

    A collective in a lawsuit alleging FedEx failed to pay drivers overtime can still stand, a Pennsylvania federal judge found, saying that even though some opt-in plaintiffs are now dismissed, the company should file its independent bid for decertification.

  2. June 07, 2022

    Fed-Ex Drivers Say OT Suit Sanctions Bid 'Crosses The Line'

    FedEx's bid to sanction a truck driver pursuing unpaid overtime claims and his attorneys represents a bad faith attempt to coerce the opposition into undermining its own class claims, workers told a Pennsylvania federal court. 

  3. May 31, 2022

    FedEx Wants Driver, Attys Sanctioned In Overtime Row

    A package delivery driver and his attorneys wasted three years ducking FedEx Ground Package System Inc.'s efforts to expel him from a collective of allegedly similar drivers claiming the company misclassified the workers to avoid paying them overtime, FedEx said in a sanctions bid.

  4. February 24, 2022

    Contractors Can't Intervene In FedEx OT Suit, Judge Says

    Three companies cannot intervene in a suit alleging FedEx failed to pay overtime to about 30,000 drivers, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying the court twice turned down similar bids by FedEx to have wannabe intervenors jump in the case.

  5. September 29, 2021

    FedEx Drivers Fight To Keep State OT Claims Alive

    A group of FedEx drivers contested the delivery company's bid to toss state claims that it failed to pay the workers overtime, saying the company simultaneously insists it wasn't their employer while attempting to use exemptions that only employers can claim.

  6. September 08, 2021

    FedEx Says Workers Can't Deliver On State OT Claims

    FedEx urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to stop some of its drivers from pursuing state claims they were denied overtime, saying that they are exempt under their states' laws.

  7. April 16, 2021

    FedEx Drivers Want Missing Plaintiff Demoted, Not Dismissed

    A disappearing lead plaintiff should not be completely dismissed from an unpaid wages suit against FedEx and should remain among nearly 30,000 opt-in members of the lawsuit, the workers' attorneys told a Pennsylvania federal court.

  8. March 25, 2021

    FedEx Urges Toss Of Lead Plaintiff From 'Colossal' OT Suit

    A driver who seemed to "disappear" from what FedEx called the largest-ever conditionally certified Fair Labor Standards Act collective action should be tossed as lead plaintiff, the company urged Thursday in the wage suit in Pennsylvania federal court.

  9. May 21, 2020

    FedEx Can't DQ Lichten Firm In Pa. Drivers' OT Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge said Thursday that Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC's work representing FedEx drivers in a separate New Jersey wage class action doesn't pose any conflicts for FedEx drivers in a Keystone State collective action alleging they've been shorted on overtime.

  10. March 06, 2020

    FedEx Drivers Push Back Against Bid To DQ Their Attys

    A class of drivers who contend FedEx shorted them on overtime wages have urged a Pennsylvania federal court not to disqualify Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC from representing them in the case, arguing the company is overstating the potential for a conflict of interest involving the firm.