Ace Hardware Corp. won a bid to force a worker’s individual wage-and-hour allegations into arbitration, but a federal judge paused some non-individual claims instead of throwing them out.

The hardware store chain didn’t waive its right to pursue arbitration by removing the worker’s state case to federal court and then fighting a remand, and the arbitration agreement isn’t significantly procedurally or substantively unconscionable, the US District Court for the Eastern District of California said.

Amolak Dhaliwal’s would-be class complaint accuses Ace Hardware of failing to pay minimum and overtime wages or provide proper rest and meal breaks. The suit ...

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