11th Circuit Reinstates Retirement Home Workers’ Federal Wage Claims

(September 10, 2018, 12:50 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A class of workers employed by a veterans home who claim that they were denied pay for meal breaks where they had to continue performing work duties may proceed with their federal claims, but not their state ones, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 6, partially reversing a trial court’s dismissal of the case with prejudice (Jacqueline Cooley, et al. v. HMR of Alabama, Inc., No. 18-10657, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 25280)....

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