Rest and Meal Break, Wage and Hour, Healthcare Facilities

Plaintiffs’ Bar Targets Healthcare Facilities’ Timekeeping Practices

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/25/2017

Healthcare facilities are increasingly becoming targets of collective action lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Several recent lawsuits in Texas have challenged timekeeping practices related to meal breaks....more

Mealtime Waiver Decision is Good News for California Healthcare Employers Hungry for Clarity

Nossaman LLP on 5/16/2017

In a rare move, the California Court of Appeal reversed itself and validated a California hospital’s policy of allowing healthcare workers to waive an otherwise mandatory second meal period on shifts longer than 12 hours. In...more

Hot List – What’s Happening in the California Legislature 3/13-3/17

Fisher Phillips on 3/10/2017

As the 2017-18 legislative session gets underway in California, policy committees are beginning to hear and vote on bills – including numerous proposals that impact California employers. Our weekly “hot list” will provide you...more

California Health Care Employees Cannot Waive Entitlement to Second Meal Period When Working In Excess of 12 Hours

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/18/2015

Narrowly construing the California Labor Code provisions on meal periods, the California Court of Appeal struck down a provision in the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders that allows health care employees working...more

Oops! California Court Gets Around to Invalidating 22-Year-Old Meal Period Waiver Rules for Healthcare Employees

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 2/18/2015

For nearly 22 years, IWC Wage Order No. 4 and IWC Wage Order No. 5 have permitted employees in the “health care industry” who work shifts in excess of eight total hours in a workday to “voluntarily waive their right to one of...more

California Court Decision on Meal Breaks May Cause Health Care Industry To Go To Code Blue

FordHarrison on 2/17/2015

Executive Summary: A new California Court of Appeal decision has invalidated a 22-year-old healthcare industry exception that had given the industry some flexibility with respect to how it provided its employees working...more

IWC Wage Order Found Partially Invalid for Second Meal Period Waiver

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP on 2/13/2015

In Gerard v. Orange County Memorial Medical Center, 2015 Cal.App. LEXIS 132, the Court of Appeal found Wage Order No. 5, Section 11(D) of Industrial Welfare Commission ("IWC") wage order No. 5-2001 (Cal. Code Regs., title 8,...more

Did You Know…Second Meal Period Waivers Invalid for Health Care Workers When Working More Than 12 Hours

Nossaman LLP on 2/12/2015

In Jazmina Gerard v. Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, the California Court of Appeal held that the wage orders health care companies have been following for years were wrong and contrary to the California Labor Code....more

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