Taking the view that hospital security guards are less akin to health-care workers than they are to security workers, a federal judge granted conditional class certification to guards at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for claims that CHOP violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.

However, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Strawbridge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stopped short of granting the plaintiff, Daaiyah Goldstein, a class that would include all employees of the hospital because they don’t share enough in common with regard to the hospital’s dress code.

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