A California federal judge vehemently rejected a proposed settlement that gives hundreds of current and former Aeropostale employees little to no money in return for waiving their rights to sue the clothing retailer for late overtime wages, accusing the attorneys behind the deal of “selling them down the river for nothing.”
U.S. District Judge William Alsup for the Northern District of California in San Francisco denied preliminary approval of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) collective-action settlement on May 29, calling it “one of the worst I’ve ever seen” and “so unfair, it cannot be fixed.”
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