Florida Hospital System Defeats Nurse’s Quitting Fee Suit

An emergency room nurse failed to state an illegal kickback claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and so is stuck with a quitting fee for now, a federal judge said.

Lauren McFalls wasn’t required to participate in a fellowship program that she ultimately found to be “worthless,” Judge Sheri Polster Chappell, of the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, wrote. And it’s implausible on the record before the court that NCH Healthcare System Inc. “reduced her wages below the minimum wage to pay the” debt she incurred by leaving the program early, Chappell ruled, dismissing ...