Maryland’s highest court has rejected an employment class action against Safeway Inc. but also ruled that employees have a private right of action against employers for miscalculations of pay exempt from garnishment.
Judge Alan Wilner wrote that the state Legislature had shifted responsibility from state labor officials to individual employees, but that the representative of the putative class had waited too long to seek class certification. The ruling sustained the judgment of a trial judge.
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