Nurses Entitled to Overtime Pay
Various lawsuits have been filed, from New York to Texas to California, claiming that hospitals and nurse-staffing agencies are violating the overtime policies of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The claims of the nurses include not only failure to pay overtime for all hours worked over forty in one week or eighty hours in two weeks, depending on how the pay period is calculated, but also claims of improper time deductions for breaks and meals that were not actually taken by the nurses.
