Temp Nurses Win Class Status in Stipend, Overtime Case (1)

April 10, 2018, 6:48 PM UTCUpdated: April 10, 2018, 8:21 PM UTC

Fastaff LLC must defend claims that the staffing company improperly excluded housing stipends from its overtime wage calculations against a freshly certified class of workers.

California has recently been a hotbed of wage-and-hour activity. The California Supreme Court ruled in March that businesses in the state should be calculating overtime compensation for employees with the formula set out by the state’s labor commission manual rather than the less-generous federal calculation.

Fastaff assigns nurses and technicians to temporary job assignments for up to 13 weeks and provides a housing stipend or housing arrangements during an employee’s assignment. The company doesn’t include ...

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