A California federal judge has decertified a collective action of almost 600 Aeropostale Inc. workers who claimed the clothing retailer was late in paying their overtime wages, less than two weeks after the parties’ proposed settlement was rejected by the judge for being “so unfair, it cannot be fixed.”

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued an order on June 10 decertifying the conditionally certified Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action based on a stipulation between the parties. Alsup had granted conditional FLSA certification for the class in April 2013.

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