Judge Janet M. Frangie awarded the former employees $17.5 million and the costs of the lawsuit, superseding the jury’s original award of $55,000, according to the report.
The former employees won a class-action lawsuit against the hospital last summer, alleging the hospital lowered the base pay of employees working 12-hour shifts after a 1999 state law required overtime pay for employees working more than eight hours per day. The hospital claims employees voted to keep 12-hour shifts when given a choice between continuing 12-hour shifts and changing to 8-hour shifts.
Kathi Sankey-Robinson, the hospital’s vice president of business development and marketing, said Redlands Community Hospital plans to appeal the court’s exclusion of findings from a Labor and Workforce Development Agency report and Judge Frangie’s overturning of the jury’s financial award.
Read the Redlands Daily Facts report on Redlands Community Hospital.
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