Bass Pro Group LLC signed a $4.95 million class settlement with tobacco-using workers who say they’ve wrongly been charged a $2,080 annual penalty to stay on the company’s health plan.
The proposed deal would provide about 5,500 current and former employees with average net payments of more than $580, the workers said in a motion seeking preliminary approval of the settlement. It represents about 35% of the tobacco penalties deducted from their wages between April 2018 and October 2024, they said.
The deal, announced Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, is one of the ...
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