This settlement resolves claims that FedEx Ground made package handlers at its Maryland facilities work before and after their shifts without pay. If you worked an hourly job at one of those facilities between April 25, 2021 and October 31, 2025, you are in the class by payroll record — there is no claim form to file, which is why a payment can arrive without you ever having signed up for anything.
Current Status
There is no claim form and no claim deadline on this settlement — the class is drawn from FedEx Ground's own payroll records, and the Notice of Settlement describes a payment going to every settlement class member. A Final Approval Hearing was scheduled for June 26, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Baltimore. Important: OpenClassActions has not been able to confirm whether that hearing was held or whether the Court entered a final approval order, and no official payment date has been announced as of August 10, 2026. The official settlement website is the authoritative source for the current stage, and the section below on what we could not verify says exactly where the gaps are.What Changed Recently?
The case is Minton v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., Case No. 1:24-cv-01224, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. It was filed on April 25, 2024, the parties reached a settlement, and a Final Approval Hearing was placed on the calendar for June 26, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Baltimore. The official settlement website is Minton FedEx MD.com, which class members log into to see their own information.A hearing appearing on a calendar is not the same as an order being entered, and this page does not treat it as one. What happens after a final approval order in a case like this is standard: the settlement becomes effective once the appeal window closes, and the administrator then distributes payments on the schedule set by the settlement agreement. If checks are moving, that sequence is the reason.
FedEx Ground denies the allegations. The case settled rather than being tried, so no court has decided whether the claims are true, and a class settlement is an agreement to resolve claims rather than an admission of wrongdoing.
Who Qualifies?
The settlement class is all hourly or non-exempt employees who worked at FedEx Ground's package handling facilities in Maryland between April 25, 2021 and October 31, 2025. That is the entire test. It does not matter whether you still work there, and there is nothing to prove — FedEx Ground's payroll and timekeeping records determine who is on the list.Two consequences follow from that. First, if you worked at a FedEx facility outside Maryland, this particular settlement does not cover you, no matter how similar your experience was. Second, if you left the company years ago and moved, the address on file may be stale — an old address is the single most common reason a class member never sees a payment they were entitled to.
How Much Can You Get?
FedEx Ground's total settlement payment is $9,000,000. Individual amounts come out of a two-part formula described in the Notice of Settlement.• A $10 base payment. Every settlement class member receives it, regardless of how long they worked.
• A points allocation by week. Each full-time week — 40 hours or more — is allocated 2 points. Each non-full-time week, under 40 hours, is allocated 1 point.
The practical effect is that the payment tracks time on the clock much more closely than anything else. A seasonal hire who worked six part-time weeks in late 2021 sits near the base payment. Someone who worked full time across most of the four-and-a-half-year class period accumulates several hundred points and lands far higher. This is the ordinary structure for wage-and-hour class settlements, and it is why two people who worked at the same building can receive very different amounts.
The figures above are the gross allocation terms from the settlement notice. Court-approved attorneys' fees, litigation costs, service awards and administration expenses are normally deducted before class distribution in a common-fund settlement of this kind, and OpenClassActions has not been able to confirm the approved amounts here. Treat any per-person estimate you calculate from the points formula as an approximation of the gross allocation rather than a prediction of the net check.
What Proof or Claim Form Is Required?
None that the settlement notice describes. This is the part that surprises people: the notice states that every settlement class member will receive a base payment, and it does not set out a claim form or a claim deadline. Rule 23 wage-and-hour settlements generally work this way — because the employer already knows exactly who worked which weeks, the administrator builds the distribution list from payroll data instead of asking people to come forward.That is why there was never a claim window to promote, and why a payment can arrive with no warning. It is also why the most useful thing a class member can do is make sure the administrator has a current mailing address, which is what the login on the official settlement website is for.
Important: a real class settlement payment asks nothing of you. Nobody legitimate will request a fee, a bank login, a card number, or a Social Security number in order to release a settlement check. If a message about this settlement asks for any of those, treat it as a scam and verify through the official settlement website instead. Our guide on telling a real settlement notice from a fake one walks through the usual tells.
What Is the Deadline?
There is no claim deadline, because there is no claim form. The deadlines that existed in this case were the exclusion and objection deadlines set during the notice period, and those ran ahead of the June 26, 2026 hearing date. OpenClassActions was not able to retrieve the exact exclusion and objection dates, so none are published here rather than guessing at them.If you received a settlement check, one deadline does apply to you: settlement checks carry a stale date, and an uncashed check normally becomes void after a set number of days. The number varies by settlement and is printed on the check itself. Cash it promptly rather than setting it aside.
How Do You Take Action?
There is no claim to file. For anything else — checking whether you are on the class list, updating a mailing address, asking about a payment that has not arrived, or reading the settlement agreement and its release — the route is the official settlement website at Minton FedEx MD.com, which class members access with the login information from their notice.The settlement agreement posted there controls over any summary, including this one. If you want to know precisely which claims the release covers before cashing a check, that document is where it is written out.
What OpenClassActions Could Not Verify
This page is published with real gaps in it, and it is worth being direct about them rather than papering over them. The court docket, the official settlement website and the full settlement notice were all unreachable during research, so the following are unconfirmed:• Whether the June 26, 2026 Final Approval Hearing was held, continued, or resulted in an order.
• Whether the Court granted final approval, and on what date.
• Whether payments have been issued, and any official payment date.
• The name of the Settlement Administrator.
• The exclusion and objection deadlines from the notice period.
• The approved attorneys' fees, litigation costs and service awards, and the resulting net distribution.
Everything stated elsewhere on this page — the case caption and number, the court, the class definition and class period, the $9,000,000 figure, the $10 base payment and the points formula, and the scheduled hearing date — comes from the Notice of Settlement and the court's docket record. The unverified items above will be filled in and this page updated once the primary documents are accessible.
What Happens Next?
In the ordinary sequence for a settlement of this kind, a final approval order starts an appeal window; once that window closes with no appeal, the settlement becomes effective and the administrator distributes payments on the timetable in the settlement agreement. Any class member who wants the actual status rather than the general pattern should check the official settlement website, which is updated by the administrator.If wage-and-hour cases are new to you, our explainer on workplace claims beyond workers' compensation covers the neighboring ground, and the class action glossary entry explains how a class gets defined and bound in the first place.
Sources and Verification
• Notice of Settlement, Minton v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., filed in the CAFA notice repository (class definition, class period, $9,000,000 settlement payment, $10 base payment, points allocation, final approval hearing date)• Minton v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., Case No. 1:24-cv-01224, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case caption, case number, court, April 25, 2024 filing date, cause of action)
• Official settlement website — Minton FedEx MD.com
Questions
I got a check from this and never filed anything. Is that normal?
For a wage-and-hour class settlement, yes. The class here is defined by FedEx Ground's own payroll and timekeeping records — everyone who worked as an hourly or non-exempt employee at a Maryland package handling facility during the class period. The administrator builds the mailing list from those records rather than from claim forms, and the Notice of Settlement describes every settlement class member receiving a base payment. That is why there was no claim window to hear about and no deadline to miss. A genuine settlement check asks nothing of you: if anyone asks for a fee, a bank login, or a Social Security number to release a payment, that is not part of this process.
Why is the amount so small for some people and larger for others?
The formula has two parts. Every settlement class member receives a $10 base payment regardless of how long they worked. On top of that, the Notice of Settlement allocates points by week: each full-time week of 40 or more hours is worth 2 points, and each week under 40 hours is worth 1 point. Someone who worked a handful of part-time weeks in 2021 and left lands near the base payment. Someone who worked full time across most of the four-and-a-half-year class period accumulates hundreds of points. The individual amount therefore tracks weeks worked far more than it tracks anything about the underlying allegations.
Why did I never hear about this settlement anywhere?
Because there was nothing for the public to do. This is a single-state, single-employer class limited to FedEx Ground's Maryland package handling facilities, and the class members were identified from payroll records rather than recruited through a public claim form. Settlements that get wide coverage are the ones with an open claim window anyone can enter. A closed employee class with automatic distribution has no such window, so it draws little attention outside the direct mail sent to the class.
What did the lawsuit actually allege?
The complaint alleges that FedEx Ground required package handlers to perform work before and after their scheduled shifts without paying for that time, in violation of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law. Those are allegations. The case settled rather than going to trial, so no court has decided whether they are true, and a settlement is an agreement to resolve claims rather than an admission of wrongdoing.
Does taking the payment give up any rights?
Every class settlement carries a release, and class members who did not exclude themselves are bound by it once the settlement becomes effective. The scope of the release is defined in the settlement agreement itself, not in any summary of it, and the release is what the settlement payment is consideration for. Anyone who wants to know exactly what claims are covered should read the release section of the agreement on the official settlement website, or ask Class Counsel.
