Class Action Attorneys Blog

In a recent ruling against Crozer Chester Medical Center, U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno found that physician's assistants (PAs) are entitled to receiving overtime pay under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or FLSA. The Judge disagreed with the defendant's argument that PAs are exempt from the FLSA overtime regulations under the professional employee exemption.

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With potentially hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted for, the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office has suspended, and intends to terminate, most of the managers who have handled sheriff's sales of foreclosed Philadelphia properties. The Director of Finance and Compliance, the Solicitor and the Real Estate Supervisor - all suspended. The private company that handled sheriff's sales - fired. All sheriff's sales are on hold for the next two months, and the Philadelphia District Attorney has been put on notice. This upheaval is mostly due to the hard work and investigation of Philadelphia's City Controller, Alan Butkovitz, who concluded that former Sheriff John D. Green and his staff created "an opportunity for fraud" by failing to adequately track $53 million handled by the Sheriff's Office.

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