Judge Grants Final Approval Of $4.9M Class Action Settlement In Overtime Wage Suit

( November 11, 2026, 9:03 AM EST) -- SCRANTON, Pa. — A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted final approval of a class action settlement totaling $4.93 million in a lawsuit alleging that Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. violated the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA) by failing to pay plaintiffs and other Pennsylvania production workers overtime wages for time associated with mandatory COVID screenings and time spent at the beginning and end of the workday walking between facility turnstiles/entrances to assigned timeclocks at its three Pennsylvania beef plants, finding that the settlement is “fair, reasonable, and adequate.”...