Case: Wage & Hour/Joint Employer (S.D. Fla.)

A Florida federal district court partially denied summary judgment to a group of behavioral health facility employees—who were terminated without notice or full pay following the suicides of two executives—on claims under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, and state wage laws against a group of coal companies and their manager, finding genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether the coal companies were joint employers, while granting summary judgment to the employees on the occurrence of a mass layoff, unpaid wages, and damages calculations (depending on how a jury determines the joint employer ...