Medical Transport Worker Seeking Wages For COVID Screening Survives Dismissal

( February 24, 2025, 9:40 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss by a university medical center in a lawsuit brought by a former patient transport employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state wage laws seeking compensation for time spent being screened and tested for COVID-19 before her shift and for a week she went unpaid because of an interruption in a payroll system....