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Sep 12, 2023 · Tue, 09/12/2023. Flowers Foods, a producer and marketer of baked goods, has a reached a settlement agreement in a class action with approximately 475 plaintiffs. Daniel Ludlow brought the lawsuit against Flowers Foods, alleging that he and other drivers were misclassified as independent contractors. Many of the benefits and protections under ...
Mar 28, 2024 · They contend that Flowers intentionally misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., and the Louisiana Wage Payment Act (“LWPA”), La. R.S. 23:631, et seq.
Sep 29, 2023 · Appeals court blocked driver bid for arbitration exemption. High court will consider exemption in wake of 2022’s Saxon. Drivers who deliver baked goods for Flowers Foods Inc. and say they fall under a transportation worker exemption to federal arbitration laws convinced the US Supreme Court on Friday to take a look at their case.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Jennifer Bennett. Reporter. Court rejected industry test in mirror-image case April 12. Flowers Foods won on exemption at 2d. Cir., lost at 1st Cir. The US Supreme Court declined to take up Flowers Foods Inc.'s challenge to a First Circuit arbitration exemption ruling Monday, after the justices sided with another group of the company’s ...
Mar 1, 2024 · SAN DIEGO , March 1, 2024 -- Today Judge Jinsook Ohta (S.D. Cal.) granted final approval of a $130 million settlement between delivery drivers and Flower Foods Distributors in California. It...
Apr 27, 2022 · Legal Reporter. Flowers allegedly misclassified drivers as ICs. Drivers get $9 million, plus $6 million route buy back. A $23.1 million settlement between Flowers Foods Inc., which makes Wonder Bread and Tastykake, and nearly 120 delivery drivers in Maine received final approval from a federal judge, resolving nearly seven years of Fair Labor ...
Jun 5, 2023 · The two workers who filed the suit deliver baked goods under distribution agreements—which include mandatory ... Flowers Foods Inc. and two subsidiaries failed to convince the First Circuit to rehear their arguments as to why their delivery drivers should have to arbitrate wage-and-hour claims.
