YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yakima County Superior Court has granted final approval for a $1 million settlement that provides retroactive overtime pay for workers at a Lower Yakima Valley dairy. The settlement wraps up a class-action lawsuit filed in 2016 on behalf of nearly 300 workers of DeRuyter Brothers Dairy of Outlook. It alleged employees worked nine to 12 hours a day, six hours a week without rest breaks, meal pay or overtime pay. Most of the wage claims were resolved in a $600,000 settlement approved by the court in 2017. That settlement left unresolved a challenge to state law that exempted workers from overtime pay.
$1M settlement reached in dairy worker overtime lawsuit
