By Michael DeMarino and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
Duane Morris Takeaways – In McCarthy v. Medicus Healthcare Sols., LLC, No. 1:21-CV-668, 2023 WL 2989051, at *1 (D.N.H. Apr. 18, 2023), the U.S. District Court for the District Court of New Hampshire granted conditional certification of a collective action consisting of physician recruiters who alleged that they did not receive overtime wages for all earned overtime hours in violation of the FLSA. Although the plaintiff’s motion for conditional certification came late in the procedural posture of the case, the Court nonetheless applied the more lenient first-stage conditional certification standard often relied upon in FLSA collective actions. The decision in McCarthy is an important one as it highlights the ongoing battle between litigants over the standard for conditional certification of a FLSA collective action when the parties have engaged in significant discovery.
Background Of The Case
Plaintiff, a recruiter, worked for Medicus, a nationwide physician recruitment and medical staffing company. Plaintiff alleged that Medicus misclassified him and other alleged similarly-situated employees as a “non-exempt” employee under the FLSA, and failed to pay him overtime compensation for working over 40 hours in a workweek in violation of the FLSA.
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