Wells Fargo Bank NA hopes to persuade a federal appeals court in Philadelphia to block workers who signed arbitration agreements from receiving notice about joining a wage-and-hour collective lawsuit.
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether to follow two other federal circuit courts that have ruled that workers who agreed to arbitrate workplace disputes shouldn’t automatically get notices about opting into conditionally certified Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions. Those workers can’t join those suits, so notices would only mislead them into believing otherwise, Wells Fargo said.
The bank is challenging ...
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