About 13,700 people who worked distribution in New Jersey may soon get checks in the mail as part of a $4.6-million settlement with retail giant Target, which never paid them for their time.
The settlement for the class action lawsuit, which Target has agreed to without admitting wrongdoing, is scheduled for final approval at the federal courthouse in Camden, New Jersey on Feb. 24. Once approved, the main plaintiff, Krystal Sadler, will likely receive $10,000. Sadler’s attorneys from the firm of McOmber McOmber & Luber estimate attorney fees and expenses at just over $1.53 million. The remainder of the payout, about $2.75 million, will go to a settlement fund for former employees who labored at Target distribution centers in Burlington, Perth Amboy, and Logan Township since August of 2019.
In much the same way customers eligible for Amazon Prime’s $2.5 billion settlement do not have to do anything to receive their payments, eligible current and former Target employees will be automatically sent checks unless they send a request for exclusion to the settlement by Feb.13, per NJDistributionCentersettlement.com.
Workers say they should be paid for time spent traveling to their work stations
Sadler, who worked at Target’s Logan Township facility for two months, filed suit in November 2022, charging that the Minneapolis-based retail chain did not pay for time spent being screened by security when entering and leaving the premises, nor the amount of time it took to walk to their departments, Sourcing Journal reported…