Health-Care Worker’s Wage Lawsuit Not Duplicative of Bias Case

A Preferred Family Healthcare Inc. worker’s collective wage-and-hour suit doesn’t duplicate the claims in her earlier individual employment discrimination action, so there’s no need to toss the newer case, a federal judge in Missouri said.

The community-based health care organization sought to dismiss Amanda Wilson’s Fair Labor Standards Act suit under the prior-pending-action doctrine. But the two cases don’t “involve the same issues” or “turn on identical facts,” the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said, denying PFH’s dismissal motion.

Wilson, who worked for PFH as a community support specialist for nearly two years, filed a ...