This settlement resolves claims that FN Logistics, the warehousing company the settlement identifies as a Fashion Nova subsidiary, underpaid its California hourly and temp workers. If you worked an hourly or staffing-agency job at one of its California locations between January 13, 2019 and December 31, 2024, you share a $5,565,000 fund — and if a notice reached you in the mail, you do not need to file anything at all.
Current Status
Claims are open, and October 26, 2026 is the date that matters. The Los Angeles Superior Court has granted preliminary approval and authorized the notice, but it has not yet decided whether to approve the settlement finally. The Final Approval Hearing is set for December 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 6.For most people in this class there is nothing to do. If the Settlement Administrator mailed you a notice, your payment is calculated from payroll records and sent automatically once the Court grants final approval. A Claim Form exists only for people who did not receive that notice but believe they belong to the class, and it has to reach the Administrator by October 26, 2026 with pay stubs attached.
No payment date has been announced. If final approval is granted, FN Logistics funds the settlement within 30 days after the judgment becomes final, which happens once the appeal window closes, or later if someone appeals. FN Logistics denies violating any law and says it complied with all applicable requirements; the settlement is a compromise of disputed claims, not an admission.
What Changed Recently?
The Court preliminarily approved the settlement as fair, reasonable and adequate, authorized the class notice, and set the Final Approval Hearing. That is what opened the current window: the notice went out with each worker's own workweek and pay-period counts on it, and every response deadline in the case now runs to October 26, 2026.The next filing to watch is dated September 25, 2026, when class counsel are due to file the Motion for Final Approval along with the motion asking the Court to approve their fees, litigation expenses and the class representative service awards. Those documents are what a class member would read before deciding whether to object.
Who Qualifies?
The Court defined the class as all current and former hourly, non-exempt employees who worked for FN Logistics, LLC or its predecessor FN Logistics, Inc. in California at any time from January 13, 2019 through December 31, 2024. That is the Class Period.The class also covers temporary workers, which is the part people most often assume excludes them. Anyone placed at one of those California locations during the Class Period through a temporary or staffing agency is a class member. The notice names Adecco, Bluecrew, Personal HR, Randstad, Next Level Staffing, IWC, Compliant Care Staffing, Driven Talent and Eastridge, and says that list is not exhaustive. If you worked in one of these warehouses on an agency placement, you are covered even though the agency, not FN Logistics, signed your paycheck.
A narrower group are PAGA members: class members who worked at those locations at any time from October 2, 2021 through December 31, 2024. That is the PAGA Period, and it determines who shares the separate penalty money described below.
How Much Can You Get?
FN Logistics will pay $5,565,000 as the Gross Settlement Amount. That is not the amount split among workers — several court-approved deductions come out of it first, and the Court decides the actual figures at the Final Approval Hearing. As requested, they are up to $1,947,750 in attorneys' fees, which is 35 percent of the fund, up to $52,250 in litigation expenses, up to $10,000 to each of the four class representatives, up to $32,000 for the Settlement Administrator, and up to $200,000 in PAGA penalties.If the Court grants every one of those at the maximum requested, roughly $3.29 million would remain as the Net Settlement Amount for Individual Class Payments. Treat that as an estimate: the Court can award less than requested, which would leave more for the class.
The split is by time worked, not evenly. The Administrator divides the Net Settlement Amount by the total workweeks all participating class members worked during the Class Period, then multiplies that rate by your own workweeks. Someone who worked two years receives roughly twice what someone who worked one year receives.
Individual PAGA Payments come from a separate pot and work the same way on a different clock: $50,000 divided by all pay periods worked by PAGA members during the PAGA Period, multiplied by your own pay periods. That $50,000 is the 25 percent of the $200,000 PAGA allocation that goes to workers; the other 75 percent goes to California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Participating class members who are also PAGA members receive one check combining both amounts.
The mailed notice carries an individualized estimate of both payments, along with the workweeks and pay periods the records show for you. There is no published average or flat per-person figure, and this page will not invent one.
The settlement also allocates 20 percent of each Individual Class Payment to wages and 80 percent to interest and penalties. That allocation is a term of the settlement and affects how the payment is reported; questions about your own situation belong with the IRS or a qualified tax professional.
Do You Need to File a Claim?
This is the question that decides everything else, and the answer depends on one thing: whether a notice reached your mailbox.If you received direct notice of this settlement by mail, you do not need to submit a claim. A payment is sent to you automatically when and if the Court grants final approval. Filing a Claim Form on top of that accomplishes nothing.
If you did not receive notice by mail but believe you are a class member, you can submit a Claim Form to request a payment. That is the path for someone whose address changed, who worked through a staffing agency that no longer has current contact details, or who simply never got the envelope. A claim has to be supported: you must send copies of pay stubs or other records proving the number of workweeks you are claiming, and the form asks you to list each document and the weeks it covers. Send copies rather than originals, because nothing is returned. Only one Claim Form per person, and the form is signed under penalty of perjury.
A separate mechanism covers a related problem. If you did receive a notice but think the workweeks or pay periods printed on it are too low, you can challenge those numbers by the same October 26, 2026 date, again supported by pay stubs or other records. The Administrator treats the company's and the agencies' records as accurate unless your documents show otherwise, and its decision on a challenge is final — there is no appeal.
What Is the Deadline?
October 26, 2026 governs every option, but the standard is not identical across them, and the difference is worth an extra day of margin.A Claim Form must be received by the Settlement Administrator no later than October 26, 2026, and the settlement website specifies that it be mailed through the United States Postal Service. A request for exclusion, by contrast, must be postmarked by October 26, 2026. Written objections and workweek or pay-period challenges share the same date. Because the claim deadline is a receipt deadline rather than a postmark deadline, mailing on the last day is not enough.
How Do You Take Action?
Everything runs through the official settlement website, Bucio v FN Logistics Class Action, which is operated by the court-appointed administrator and hosts the Claim Form, the long-form notice, the settlement agreement and the other court documents, along with the mailing address for submissions.If a notice reached you, the useful action is not filing but housekeeping: make sure the Administrator has your current mailing address, because your check goes to the same address the notice did. That matters more than usual here, since a large share of this class worked through staffing agencies years ago and has moved since.
Opting Out and Objecting
You can exclude yourself from the class settlement, but you cannot exclude yourself from the PAGA settlement. That asymmetry is not a quirk of this case — PAGA penalties belong to the State of California, so no individual can opt out of releasing them.To opt out, send the Administrator a signed letter or postcard containing your name, address, telephone number and the last four digits of your Social Security number, plus a statement that you want to be excluded from the settlement class, postmarked by October 26, 2026. You have to make the request yourself; a request submitted by someone else on your behalf is not valid. Opting out means no Individual Class Payment, but you keep the right to pursue your own wage and hour claims, and you remain eligible for an Individual PAGA Payment if you worked during the PAGA Period.
Only participating class members — those who do not opt out — may object. An objection goes to the Settlement Administrator by October 26, 2026 and should identify the case, state what you object to and why, include any supporting facts, and give your name, current address, telephone number and approximate dates of employment. You can also object in person at the Final Approval Hearing, with or without a lawyer of your own.
What Are You Giving Up?
Participating class members release the wage and hour claims pleaded in the amended complaint, and claims that could have been asserted on the same facts, against a wide set of released parties. That set is broader than the defendant alone: it covers the staffing agencies that supplied workers, the company's parents — the settlement names Fashion Nova LLC among them — subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and predecessors, and their officers, employees and payroll companies.The release is limited to the wage claims. It expressly does not cover claims for vested benefits, wrongful termination, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, unemployment insurance, disability, Social Security, workers' compensation, or claims based on facts occurring outside the Class Period.
One carve-out is easy to miss: the PAGA release does not include suitable-temperature claims that were resolved in a separate case, Hill v. Fashion Nova et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 21STCV40012.
What Happens Next?
Class counsel file the Motion for Final Approval and the fee motion on September 25, 2026. The response deadlines close on October 26, 2026. The Court then holds the Final Approval Hearing on December 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 6 of the Los Angeles Superior Court and decides whether to approve the settlement and how much to award in fees, expenses and service awards. Hearings do get moved, so the official website is the place to confirm the date.A hearing is not an outcome. If the Court grants final approval and enters judgment, funding follows within 30 days of the judgment becoming final. If the Court denies final approval, or the judgment is reversed on appeal, the settlement is void: FN Logistics pays nothing and class members release nothing.
When checks do issue, they carry a void date on the front. A check not cashed by that date is cancelled and the money is deposited with the California Controller's Unclaimed Property Fund in the worker's name, which is recoverable but only by going through that fund's own process. A lost check can be replaced by the Administrator, but only if the request comes before the void date.
Sources and Verification
• Court-Approved Notice of Class Action Settlement and Hearing Date for Final Court Approval, Griselda Dunia Bucio et al. v. FN Logistics, LLC, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 22STCV26948• Claim Form and Release, and the class and PAGA definitions it sets out
• Frequently Asked Questions and Important Dates published by the Settlement Administrator
• Official settlement website, operated by Simpluris, Inc.
• Los Angeles Superior Court case access — search Case No. 22STCV26948
Questions
Do I have to file a claim to get paid?
Most class members do not. If the Settlement Administrator mailed you a notice, a payment is sent to you automatically if the Court grants final approval, and there is nothing to file. A Claim Form is only for people who did not receive a mailed notice but believe they belong to the class. Those claims must reach the Administrator by October 26, 2026 and must be supported by copies of pay stubs or other records proving the workweeks claimed.
Who is included in the FN Logistics settlement class?
All current and former hourly, non-exempt employees who worked for FN Logistics, LLC or its predecessor FN Logistics, Inc. in California at any time from January 13, 2019 through December 31, 2024, plus any temporary employees who worked at those California locations during that period after being hired or placed through a temporary or staffing agency. The notice names Adecco, Bluecrew, Personal HR, Randstad, Next Level Staffing, IWC, Compliant Care Staffing, Driven Talent and Eastridge among those agencies, and says the list is not exhaustive.
How much will each worker receive?
There is no flat per-person amount. Each Individual Class Payment is the Net Settlement Amount divided by all workweeks worked by participating class members, multiplied by that person's own workweeks, so someone who worked longer receives more. Individual PAGA Payments work the same way using pay periods and a separate $50,000. The mailed notice states an individualized estimate along with the workweeks and pay periods on record.
What is the deadline?
October 26, 2026 is the single date for everything a class member might do: a Claim Form must be received by the Administrator by then, and a request for exclusion must be postmarked by then. Objections and challenges to the workweeks or pay periods credited to you share the same October 26, 2026 date.
Can I opt out of this settlement?
You can opt out of the class portion but not the PAGA portion. Excluding yourself means you get no Individual Class Payment but keep the right to pursue your own wage and hour claims. Even after opting out you remain eligible for an Individual PAGA Payment, and you still give up the right to bring PAGA claims against the released parties. The request must be made by you personally, signed, and postmarked by October 26, 2026.
What is PAGA and why is it separate?
PAGA is California's Private Attorneys General Act, which lets an employee sue for civil penalties on the state's behalf. Because those penalties belong to the state rather than to the worker, a class member cannot opt out of that part. The settlement sets aside up to $200,000 in PAGA penalties, allocated 75 percent to California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency and 25 percent, or $50,000, split among PAGA members by pay periods worked between October 2, 2021 and December 31, 2024.
Has the Court approved this settlement yet?
Only preliminarily. The Court preliminarily approved the settlement and authorized the notice, but final approval has not been granted. The Final Approval Hearing is scheduled for December 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 6 of the Los Angeles Superior Court. If the Court denies final approval, the settlement is void, FN Logistics pays nothing and class members release nothing.
When would payments go out?
No payment date has been announced. If final approval is granted, FN Logistics funds the settlement no more than 30 days after the judgment becomes final, which happens once the time to appeal expires or later if the judgment is appealed. Checks carry a void date printed on the front, and money from checks not cashed by that date goes to California's Unclaimed Property Fund in the worker's name.
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