Major League Baseball will pay $185 million to minor league players to end long-running litigation over what the players called poverty wages, under a settlement approved Wednesday in federal court.
Thousands of class members will share $121 million, and the court approved $55.5 million for attorneys’ fees.
The settlement ends the lawsuit filed in 2014 against MLB and 22 clubs alleging federal Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage, recordkeeping, and overtime violations. Players also alleged state labor law violations of California, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Oregon
The settlement that Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero, US District ...
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