Case: Wage & Hour/Conditional Certification (M.D. Fla.)

Feb. 4, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

A Florida federal district court granted NCH Healthcare System, Inc. and Naples Community Hospital, Inc.'s motion to decertify a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act brought by a nurse who alleged that the hospital’s $5,000 program fee for nurses who left before completing a two-year fellowship constituted an illegal kickback that denied minimum wage, finding that the four plaintiffs’ circumstances were too individualized regarding how the fee was collected to maintain certification.

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