A federal judge in Newark has rejected attempts by a discount furniture retailer and its delivery contractor to enforce arbitration agreements whose language was deemed ambiguous.

U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez of the District of New Jersey denied the defendants’ motions to compel arbitration in a wage-and-hour suit on behalf of a class of delivery truck drivers and drivers’ helpers working out of the Edison warehouse of Bob’s Discount Furniture. The suit claims delivery workers are wrongly classified as independent contractors to deny them overtime pay for putting in greater than 40 hours per week.

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