Health Care Workers are Frequent Victims of Overtime Pay Violations
Nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, janitors and cooks “are particularly vulnerable to wage violations,” said an official for the U.S. Department of Labor. As reported in the NY Times, the U.S. Department of Labor is cracking down on what it perceives as an industry wide practice of wage violations in the health care industry. See the article, Pay Practices in Health Care are Investigated. The article cites several recent settlements such as 1.7M for 4000 health care workers in St. Louis, 2.7M for employees of Partners Health Care System in Boston, and 7.25M for hundreds of registered nurses who worked for Kaiser Permanente in California.
Our law firm just filed a class action against Cigna for its practice of not paying overtime wages to disability clinical case managers. It our contention that these employees are entitled to overtime pay. An article on our case was published yesterday in Law360, a newswire for business lawyers.
