Cleveland Clinic Gets Worker’s Wage-and-Hour Dispute Pared Back

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is partly free of state-law wage allegations, but a federal judge rejected the top hospital’s bid to adopt a narrower statute of limitations for some of a former employee’s other claims.

The hospital successfully argued that a change in Ohio law made the worker’s would-be class overtime claim inappropriate in its current form. But the ex-employee that brought the suit sufficiently alleged willfulness under the Fair Labor Standards Act, dooming Cleveland Clinic’s attempt to shorten the limitations period for that claim, the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio said Wednesday.

Plaintiff Deborah Garner ...