Healthcare Employee Wage and Hour Collective Claims: Growing Litigation Threat
Avoiding, Defending and Settling FLSA Actions Against Hospitals and Providers
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to healthcare counsel to avoid or minimize wage and hour collective and class action litigation. The panel will examine recent trends in FLSA and state lawsuits against hospitals, offer strategies to avoid being a target of lawsuit, and suggest defense and settlement tactics.
Outline
- Current trends
- Aggressive plaintiffs’ attorneys
- Heightened DOL enforcement
- Lawsuits filed
- Collective actions versus class actions
- Targeted areas
- Automatic meal break deductions
- Unauthorized hours worked
- On-call time
- Travel time
- Home health care
- Employee misclassification
- Rate of pay and shift differentials
- Strategies to avoid, defend and settle claims
- Audit and update existing wage and hour policies, procedures and practices
- Training for employees and managers
- Defense strategies
- Settlement strategies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the bases for the recent surge in FLSA and state law collective and class claims in the healthcare industry — and how are hospital attorneys responding?
- What legal and practical steps should healthcare providers take to minimize the likelihood of lawsuits alleging wage and hour violations?
- What are the key considerations for healthcare counsel when structuring a settlement to meet their clients' best interests and obtain court approval?
Faculty
Lisa (Lee) A. Schreter
Chairman of the Board
Littler Mendelson
Ms. Schreter is Co-Chair of the firm’s Wage and Hour Practice Group. She focuses on representing employers in... | Read More
Ms. Schreter is Co-Chair of the firm’s Wage and Hour Practice Group. She focuses on representing employers in complex class and collective actions involving overtime and other wage-related claims and specializes in helping employers to develop forward-thinking compliance measures that reduce wage and hour disputes and other employment-related issues. Ms. Schreter also represents and counsels management clients in connection with all other types of labor and employment matters arising under federal and state laws.
CloseAlison B. Marshall
Partner
Jones Day
Ms. Marshall is an active litigator who has extensive experience handling complex employment litigation matters... | Read More
Ms. Marshall is an active litigator who has extensive experience handling complex employment litigation matters including employment discrimination class actions and wage and hour class actions. She is a frequent speaker on employment and civil rights issues and the author of a number of published articles on EEO issues.
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President & CEO
ELT
She has advised hundreds of companies on strategic risk management initiatives, and has unique expertise in wage and... | Read More
She has advised hundreds of companies on strategic risk management initiatives, and has unique expertise in wage and hour dispute prevention. Under her leadership, ELT developed the first online wage and hour training course that went on to become one of the Human Resource Executive® Top Training Products of the Year in 2008.
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