June 08, 2021
A Pennsylvania nursing home company can't pause state wage law class claims by workers while a separate suit by the U.S. Department of Labor containing federal wage law claims against the company moves forward without summary judgment, a federal judge ruled.
May 27, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor's intervention in a private suit in which nursing facility aides reached a tentative $1.75 million unpaid wages settlement is an unusual move by an agency that usually lets plaintiffs lawyers handle their own cases, wage and hour attorneys say.
April 29, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor has changed course about whether a Pennsylvania federal court should pause workers' state wage law claims against a nursing home company pending resolution of a related government case, agreeing that allowing both cases to proceed would be "painfully inefficient."
January 20, 2021
Workers asked a Pennsylvania federal court to dismiss their federal labor claims against a nursing home company they accused of overtime and record-keeping violations, after the U.S. Department of Labor launched its own action against the company and requested that the court toss the workers' claims.
November 18, 2020
The U.S. Department of Labor asked a court to nix federal wage claims in a group of workers' lawsuit against a nursing home company, arguing that its case supersedes their private suit under labor law.