Are Hospital Automatic Meal Period Deduction Cases Now On Life Support?

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently decertified an FLSA collective action and denied certification of a Rule 23 class in Camilotes v. Resurrection Health Care Corporation, No. 10-cv-366 (Oct. 4, 2012). Camilotes is part of a rash of cases filed around the country over the last several years against hospitals and other health care providers alleging that defendants’ policies or practices of automatically deducting thirty minutes for an unpaid meal period violate the FLSA and various state wage and hour laws.

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