March 07, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge refused Friday to allow a delivery provider to escape a class action accusing it of failing to pay delivery drivers overtime wages, but determined no reasonable jury could find that a discount retailer partner was the workers' employer.
December 01, 2023
Delivery drivers for Bob's Discount Furniture and its delivery provider urged a New Jersey federal judge not to toss their unpaid overtime class action, saying the companies can't skirt their obligations to pay fair wages because they were the drivers' joint employers.
November 02, 2023
Bob's Discount Furniture and its delivery provider filed separate bids to end a proposed collective action alleging they failed to pay delivery drivers overtime, with each company telling a New Jersey federal court that it is not the drivers' employer and cannot be held liable for wage claims.
March 27, 2023
Bob's Discount Furniture and its delivery provider asked a New Jersey federal court Monday to delay informing drivers that they may be part of a class in an overtime pay lawsuit, arguing that it will cost the companies money that they can't get back if the Third Circuit undoes the class.
October 29, 2021
Drivers who accused Bob's Discount Furniture and one of its transportation providers of misclassifying them as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime lost their bid for class certification after a New Jersey federal judge found their class definition was too broad.