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Legal challenges are never easy to confront, and this time, we have Walmart at the center of some serious allegations. The CFPB is suing Walmart and fintech company Branch Messenger for allegedly creating deposit accounts for delivery drivers and forcing them to use it to access their paychecks.
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s explanation of the lawsuit on the illegal deposit accounts, the two companies forced millions of delivery drivers to use costly deposit accounts to get paid their wages. The pair were also accused of deceiving these workers on how they could access their earnings. Workers who