Wells Fargo Notches Partial Early Win in Phone Worker Wage Case – Bloomberg Law

Wells Fargo Bank NA is free of one phone-based employee’s wage claims, but it failed to show it deserves summary judgment on two other workers’ allegations.

One of the employees who filed the suit worked as a phone banker, another as a financial crimes specialist, and a third as an account resolution specialist at a Wells Fargo call center. They allege violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage laws.

The bank allegedly required workers to set up their computers and software programs before clocking in and shut everything down after clocking out, depriving them of pay …