Orange RNs Win Major Settlement

[Mindful, RN]

[h=2]St. Joseph's Hospital of Orange RNs Win Major Settlement[/h]

The California Nurses Association will be holding a press conference, Wednesday, January 11 at 11:00 a.m., to discuss a recent lawsuit victory for registered nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital of Orange. The lawsuit stems from the hospital's attempts to circumvent paying RNs the overtime wages they were lawfully entitled to from December 2001 through June 2009. Awards to the 2,717 plaintiffs have started to be received this month....

Shortly after a new overtime law went into effect in 2000 guaranteeing time-and-one-half wages for all time worked after eight hours in a workday, the California Hospital Association, (the lobbying arm of the hospital industry), urged all hospitals to lower their base pay by 15 percent to offset the new law. St. Joseph's Hospital of Orange was one of the facilities that enacted this practice and was ordered to pay $12 million in a class action lawsuit to the affected nurses for doing so....

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/st.-josephs-hospital-of-orange-rns-win-major-settlement/

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

That's hardly fair to the blue and green nurses.

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

Are the orange nurses something like oompa loompas? Or do they just over tan like Snooki?

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

lol it's city of Orange, in Orange County California. But yeah, they probably could have worded it a little differently. The settlements some of the nurses are getting is pretty impressive...over 20k from what I'm hearing. The second meal period they were waiving they weren't getting paid for on extra shifts from what I heard. So with the interest, it ended up being substancial for them. And a nurse noticed, and fought back, good for her for standing up for her and her fellow nurses.