Detroit Federal Court Rejects Employee’s Attempt To Seek Recovery Based on...
In this post, we discussed two different courts’ analyses of hospital plaintiffs’ attempts to seek conditional certification of their claims that they were not paid for allegedly working meal periods...
View ArticleCourts Decertify Collective Actions Based On Auto-Deduct Claims, Citing...
As we have repeatedly discussed, use of a so-called “auto-deduct”, wherein a predetermined amount of time is automatically deducted from an employee’s hours of work to correspond to a meal period with...
View ArticlePennsylvania Law Amended to Comport to FLSA’s 8/80 Overtime Rule For...
In a positive development for Pennsylvania healthcare employers, on July 5, 2012, Governor Corbett signed into state law an amendment to the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (“PMWA”), allowing hospitals...
View ArticleFifth Circuit Affirms FLSA Summary Judgment Based On “Complete Lack Of...
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the holding of a Texas district court that “an unsubstantiated and speculative estimate of uncompensated overtime does not...
View ArticlePennsylvania Judge Rejects Contract Claim for Meal Period Pay
Hospitals and other medical service providers continue to face waves of wage-and-hour claims concerning meal break practices, with non-exempt care providers alleging that they were unable to take...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Nurses’ Generalized Claim of “8 to 12” Uncompensated Hours...
The best defense for employers confronted with claims of “off-the-clock”, (i.e., unrecorded) work under the FLSA are accurate contemporaneous time records created by employees based on clearly...
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