{"id":457801,"date":"2026-09-09T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457801\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:21:00","slug":"kqed-to-settle-wage-theft-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457801\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED To Settle Wage-Theft Class Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman granted preliminary approval of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilymgroup.com\/kqed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">settlement<\/a> May 4.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Some KQED employees began receiving notices of their proposed payouts earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12098297\/kqed-will-pay-nearly-900000-to-settle-wage-theft-class-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KQED<\/a> reported, and the court scheduled a final approval hearing for Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Individual payments would depend on the number of hours each employee worked during the covered periods, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12098297\/kqed-will-pay-nearly-900000-to-settle-wage-theft-class-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KQED<\/a> reported. Employees may opt out of the settlement, while Dulaney could receive up to $10,000 as the class representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman granted preliminary approval of the settlement May 4. The proposed settlement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-457801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}