Employment Updates
A Missouri healthcare provider has agreed to pay its nurses ore than $1.7MM in back wages for failure to pay overtime and requiring them to work through their meal periods without pay. The FLSA requires that nurses be classified as non-exempt and therefore paid an overtime rate of one and one half times their hourly rate.
An international plumbing fixture company is settling a gender discrimination suit for $175,000. A female employee filed a complaint alleging that the company placed her on probation despite her performance record, and then fired her a month before she was to give birth. The settlement agreement also includes provisions for training, reporting and postings.