UPS Employees’ Class Action Seeks Wages for Travel Time

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Eight former or current employees of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) claim in a proposed collective action that the package delivery company failed to pay them for their travel time. The plaintiffs allegedly work or worked as “combo helpers,” responsible for pre-loading activities at the defendant’s facilities and then assisting drivers with their routes. The suit argues that the defendant fails to pay employees for the time it takes them to travel from the sorting/loading facility to the beginning of the drivers’ routes, which can allegedly range from 10 to 90 minutes per day. According to the complaint, the plaintiffs “almost always” work more than 40 hours per week and are therefore owed time-and-a-half premium wages for many of their allegedly unpaid hours.