Legal Opinion
Washington State Nurses Ass'n v. Sacred Heart Medical Center
Washington Supreme Court
Decided October 25, 2012No. 86563-9PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMadsen, C.J.
¶1 Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) seeks overtime pay pursuant to the Minimum Wage Act (MWA), RCW 49.46.130, for work performed by the approximately 1,200 registered nurses employed by Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. Sacred Heart, at all times pertinent to this lawsuit, was obligated by its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with WSNA to provide its nurses with a paid 15 minute block rest period each four hour work period. The parties do not dispute that when a rest period was missed, Sacred Heart provided the nurses with the equivalent of 30 minutes of *826straig…
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