Private Duty Nurse Represented by Nichols Kaster, PLLP Files Overtime Lawsuit Against HealthStar

    MINNEAPOLIS, MN, October 08, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A former employee of HealthStar Home Health, Inc. ("HealthStar") filed a lawsuit on September 28, 2015 in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota for violations of federal and state law, seeking unpaid overtime pay. The named plaintiff, a "private duty nurse," brought the case on behalf of herself and similarly situated nurses who worked for HealthStar within the past three years.

In the complaint, she alleges that HealthStar failed to pay private duty nurses the legally required overtime premium at one and one-half times their regular hourly rates for all overtime hours worked. She alleges HealthStar only paid private duty nurses "straight time" for work with hourly clients and a per diem for work with per-diem clients. The complaint alleges that, in the few instances when the company did pay overtime, it did not provide it for all overtime hours and it did not calculate it using the proper overtime rate. The plaintiff seeks unpaid overtime wages and liquidated damages.

Plaintiff's attorney Rachhana Srey explained, "private duty nurses perform important work, and they should be compensated accordingly. This means with a legally-required overtime premium for all hours worked over forty in a work week."

Plaintiffs are represented by Rachhana T. Srey and Rebekah L. Bailey from Nichols Kaster, PLLP, which has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and San Francisco, California. The case is entitled, Clevenger v. Healthstar Home Health, Inc.. No.: 0-15-cv-03748 (District of Minnesota).

Additional information about how to make a claim in the case may be found at www.nka.com or by calling Nichols Kaster, PLLP toll free at (877) 448-0492.

Nichols Kaster is a nationally recognized plaintiffs firm that focuses on representing employees and consumers whose rights have been violated. The firm was selected as a member of the National Law Journal's Litigation Boutiques Hot List, ranked as a Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report, selected as a top plaintiffs' employment law firm by Law360 and named one the top 50 Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal and Law.com.

The firm is led by its partners, who are regularly selected by their peers as Super Lawyers, and sit on the boards of numerous professional organizations, including the National Association of Employment Lawyers, the ABA Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee and the Council for the Minnesota State Bar Association's Consumer Litigation Section.

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