Cases & Deals

Advocate Health Care Network defends against statewide wage-hour class and collective action

Client(s) Advocate Health Care Network

Jones Day is defending client Advocate Health Care Network in a statewide wage-hour class and collective action complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that Advocate misclassified home health clinicians (registered nurses, occupational therapists, and physical therapists) as exempt from the overtime requirements of the FLSA and Illinois Minimum Wage Law.

Lukas v. Advocate Health Care Network et al., Case No. 1:14-cv-02740 (USDC N.D. Ill.)