6 results for 'cat:"Health Care" AND cat:"Class Action" AND cat:"Labor"'.
J. Fouratt grants the employees' motion for conditional class certification, ruling evidence indicating more than 200 individuals worked more than 40 hours per week without overtime pay satisfies typicality requirements, while modest differences between job duties among the prospective class does not prevent the use of a class action to settle the disputes collectively.
Court: USDC New Mexico, Judge: Fouratt, Filed On: November 22, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv579, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: health Care, class Action, labor
J. Strickland grants, in part, the class's motion for conditional certification, ruling the worker's declaration of a uniform policy of auto-deduction of a meal break by the health care company satisfies commonality requirements and states a plausible claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Court: USDC New Mexico, Judge: Strickland, Filed On: October 31, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv128, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: health Care, class Action, labor
J. Douglas, in this interlocutory appeal, finds the district court properly determined that a collective action brought by “vocational therapy” rehab patients may proceed under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In lieu of being paid for the jobs they performed, patients’ wages were used to offset treatment services costs. The district court applied the correct legal standards in relying on relevant case law, appropriately concluding that the patients were employees under the FLSA and entitled to compensation collectively. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Douglas, Filed On: August 16, 2023, Case #: 22-20434, Categories: health Care, class Action, labor
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J. Rose denies the employer's motion to dismiss, ruling the lack of specific weeks where overtime was accrued but not paid in the class action is not fatal to the FLSA claims, which include sufficient information about the types of patient care tasks performed by the nurses during meal breaks and meet all pleading requirements.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Rose, Filed On: August 7, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv69, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: health Care, class Action, labor