Target Loses Bid for Quick Appeal of Workers’ Group Status Win

Target Corp. will have to face a group of workers who say it misclassified them as exempt from overtime after a federal district judge rejected the company’s request to have an appellate court weigh in.

The conditional Fair Labor Standards Act collective certification order doesn’t involve a controlling question of law, there isn’t substantial ground for difference of opinion, and certifying the order for interlocutory appeal wouldn’t materially advance the wage-and-hour litigation, the US District Court for the District of Minnesota said Thursday.

Target allegedly misclassified its executive team leaders—a role the 2020 complaint describes as functioning like assistant store ...