January 31, 2024
Walmart agreed to pay $2.5 million to end a lawsuit alleging the retailer should have paid nearly 80,000 workers for the time they spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in for their shifts, according to a motion to approve the deal filed in Arizona federal court.
July 11, 2023
Walmart must face claims that it breached obligations for time that workers spent waiting for their shifts to start after completing screenings for COVID, even as an Arizona federal judge ruled that any underpayments were not cynical or in bad faith.
June 28, 2021
Walmart said Friday that because its employees also benefited from mandatory preshift COVID-19 screenings, the retail giant wasn't unjustly enriched in the process, urging an Arizona federal court to throw out that claim in a pair of workers' proposed class action.
March 23, 2021
Walmart workers hit the retail giant with a $5 million proposed class action Monday, alleging Walmart required employees to arrive at their shifts early to undergo COVID-19 screenings but flouted the law by failing to fully compensate them for their time.