San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman granted preliminary approval of the settlement May 4.
The proposed settlement would distribute slightly less than two-thirds of the approximately $895,000 payment among more than 580 hourly employees who worked at KQED between August 2019 and May 2025.
KQED would also pay $37,500 in penalties to the state Labor and Workforce Development Agency and another $12,500 in penalties to hourly employees who worked at the organization between November 2022 and May 2025.
Some KQED employees began receiving notices of their proposed payouts earlier this week, KQED reported, and the court scheduled a final approval hearing for Nov. 4.
Individual payments would depend on the number of hours each employee worked during the covered periods, KQED reported. Employees may opt out of the settlement, while Dulaney could receive up to $10,000 as the class representative.