Parth v. Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center

OPINION

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

When an employer changes its shift schedule to accommodate its employees’ scheduling desires, the employer may reduce the employee pay rate to pay its employees the same wages they received under the former schedule, so long as the rate reduction was not designed to circumvent the provisions (including overtime) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).

I. BACKGROUND

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (“PVHMC”) is a hospital located in Pomona, California that has at all relevant times been an “employer” subject to the FLSA. The FLSA requires an employer (such…