By: Amanda Mazin and David D. Kadue
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Ninth Circuit has held that a weekly per diem benefit paid by a healthcare staffing agency to its traveling clinicians is a wage that increases the employee’s regular rate used to calculate overtime pay. Clarke v. AMN Services, LLC.
Facts
Plaintiffs worked as traveling clinicians for a healthcare staffing company.
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