Lowe’s Home Centers LLC and older workers leading a class lawsuit alleging age bias in the retailer’s decision to end commission-like payments to sales associates agreed to a $400,000 settlement.
Diane Bartholomew, Michael Sherry, Willis Pelton, Jason Slater, Mark Easterling, and the company asked the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Wednesday to preliminarily approve the pact. The parties agree to include 2,197 individuals in the settlement, according to the motion.
The parties reached an agreement in principle in August with the help of a mediator and finalized the settlement on Dec. 22, the motion said.
“Lowe’s has denied and continues to deny that it unlawfully discriminated against Plaintiffs because of their age in any way,” the filing said. The settlement doesn’t constitute an admission or finding of liability or wrongdoing by Lowe’s, the agreement said.
Workers participating in the settlement will share $219,900, and class counsel will receive $130,100 in attorneys’ fees and costs. The settlement administrator will be paid $50,000, according to the agreement.
Bartholomew and Sherry filed the suit, along with opt-in plaintiffs Pelton and Slater, in September 2019. They challenged Lowe’s decision to end an “Allowance” scheme adopted in 2012 under which sales associates received annual payments equal to roughly 50% of “spiffs” they...
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