A federal judge in Newark has rejected Wells Fargo Bank’s motion to strike class allegations in a suit claiming it made hourly workers solicit new accounts while working off the clock.
The ruling comes as Wells Fargo attempts to dig itself out of a scandal over allegations that employees were pressured to open millions of unauthorized accounts in the names of existing customers. Last year the bank was fined $185 million by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the city and county of Los Angeles in the case.
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