Nurses Reach Deal to End Stay-or-Pay Wage, Trafficking Lawsuits

Nurses recruited from other countries secured nearly $1.2 million to resolve claims that two staffing companies made them pay a fee for quitting earlier than agreed.

The settlement provides more than $660,000 in reimbursement for workers who already forked over fees and limits current employees’ potential liability for early exits, the nurses told the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the US Labor Department, which was ordered the same day to supplement its bid for a consent judgment in a related case, asked the court for deadline extensions due to the ongoing ...