The settlement was reached after Dakota County Judge Robert King Jr. ruled this summer that Wal-Mart had broken the state’s wage-and-hour labor laws over 2 million times, requiring the discount retailer to pay compensation to about 100,000 current and former employees who worked at any Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club store in Minnesota.
Employees who worked for the company between September 11, 1998 and November 14, 2008 are covered by the settlement.
The Walmart wage and hour class action lawsuit alleged that hourly employees were required to work off-the-clock during training sessions and that they were denied full rest and meal breaks as required by labor laws.
According to Bloomberg News, Wal-Mart has faced at least 70 similar wage law lawsuits involving similar accusations of unpaid work, rest breaks and meal breaks.