Novant Health Fends Off Nurse’s Class Wage Lawsuit Over Lunches

Novant Health Inc. won dismissal of a registered nurse’s Fair Labor Standards Act and state-law suit seeking wages for interrupted meal periods, after a North Carolina federal judge granted summary judgment and denied collective status.

No evidence showed Novant prevented Yvette Marshall from recording and receiving compensation for interrupted meal periods.

Neither did it indicate the company deprived her of full 30-minute breaks or that it had reason to know that she worked through meals without pay, Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina said Thursday.

Marshall, who worked at ...