An $8.5 million agreement now stands at the center of a wage dispute between FedEx Ground Package System Inc. and thousands of warehouse workers across New Jersey, closing a chapter in litigation that challenged how time on the clock was measured — and who got paid for it.
The proposed FedEx $8.5M Wage Suit deal would resolve claims that hourly employees were not compensated for minutes spent passing through security screenings and walking to time clocks before and after their shifts — time workers argued was integral to the job, not incidental.
Nearly 98,000 Workers Included in Proposed Class
William Taggart, an hourly employee at one of the company’s Garden State facilities, asked the court Wednesday to approve the settlement, calling it “a fair and reasonable result given the risks and delays of continued litigation.”
The proposed settlement class spans all hourly or nonexempt workers at FedEx’s New Jersey facilities who clocked in and out between June 24, 2019, and Oct. 31, 2025.
According to court filings, the class could include about 97,795 individuals employed at package handling centers in Avenel, Barrington, Camden, Carteret, Dover, East Brunswick, Edison, Linden, Metuchen, Moonachie, Newark, Princeton, Robbinsville, Secaucus, South Brunswick, Wayne and Woodbridge.
If approved, approximately $5.3 million of the settlement fund will be distributed to participating class members. None of that money will revert to FedEx.
