McAllen Hospitals, L.P. D/B/A McAllen Medical Center and South Texas Health Systems v. Yolanda Lopez, Sheryl Hamer, Elmer Deguzman and Richard Wecker

In this breach-of-contract case, we consider whether there is legally sufficient evidence that an employer impliedly agreed to change the compensation of four employees from payment based on hours worked to fixed annual salaries. We hold there is no evidence that would have allowed reasonable, fair-minded people to find that the employer and its employees had a meeting of the minds on a fixed amount of pay. We therefore reverse and render judgment that the employees take nothing.

I. Background

Yolanda Lopez, Sheryl Hamer, Elmer DeGuzman, and Richard Wecker (the Nurses) worked as house…