July 01, 2024
A Washington hospital agreed to shell out $1.4 million to end a lawsuit claiming employees worked through meal breaks without pay, with a medical coder urging a federal court to sign off on the settlement covering about 1,350 workers.
February 12, 2024
A Washington hospital and the medical coder who accused it of compelling workers to push through ostensible meal breaks without adequate compensation told a federal court Monday they reached a settlement in principle to their dispute.
April 28, 2023
A Washington hospital has not been paying hourly workers for requiring them to work through meal breaks and has a timekeeping system that rounds hours to the nearest 15-minute increment, cheating workers out of overtime pay, an ex-medical coder alleged in a proposed class action in Washington federal court.