Hospital Settles Overtime Pay Suit for 8.5 Million
Posted by robert ottinger on Fri, Jul 09, 2010 @ 06:39 AM
A Boston based hospital group agreed to settle an overtime pay class action law suit for 8.5 million. The hospital group was sued by former and current employees who claimed they were not paid for working through lunch and for extra time worked after the end of their shift. The overtime class action suit alleged that the hospitals had a common practice of not paying its working staff overtime pay.
Non-exempt employees must be paid for the time that they work. It is a simple concept but companies routinely fail to pay their employees for all of the time worked. If employees work through lunch or stay late, they must receive overtime pay for these extra hours.