Federal claims in a proposed wage-and-hour class action filed against Hyundai may proceed, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled, but claims under state law are pre-empted.
U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the claims brought by hourly workers who allege that they were uniformly docked for a half-hour lunch break regardless of how much time they actually took are pre-empted by the Labor Management Relations Act because their claims that Hyundai violated the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act depend upon interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement.
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