Healthcare staff in Orlando, Florida are owed $244,000 after their firm didn’t pay them for all hours labored, feds say.
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Dozens of well being care employees in Florida have been by no means paid for time labored “off-the-clock” and a federal investigation adopted, in accordance with labor officers.
Now, because of the investigation, an Orlando-based well being care observe has paid 49 staff again, in accordance with the U.S. Division of Labor.
Orlando Well being Medical Group Urology has paid its staff $244,011 in again pay plus damages after the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division investigators found some folks went unpaid for additional work, the company introduced in a Jan. 23 information launch.
“Staff have a proper to be compensated for all of the work they do,” Wage and Hour Division District Director Wildalí De Jesús in Orlando mentioned in an announcement. “When employers fail to pay staff for all of the hours they work, they get the advantages of that labor and benefit from these employees unfairly.”
McClatchy Information contacted Orlando Well being Medical Group Inc. for touch upon Jan. 23 and didn’t instantly obtain a response.
The Orlando Well being employees have been owed wages after investigators found that they had labored earlier than and after their scheduled shifts, in accordance with officers. Regardless of this, they didn’t obtain additional time pay in violation of the Truthful Labor Requirements Act, officers mentioned.
What’s extra is that investigators discovered that Orlando Well being wasn’t precisely recording the quantity of hours its staff labored, in accordance with the discharge.
The 49 staff who have been underpaid labored at Orlando Well being’s headquarters in Orlando and on the firm’s places in Clermont, Lake Mary and Oviedo, in accordance with the DOL. Every location was investigated by the Wage and Hour Division.
“In the present day’s employees can select to work for employers who worth them, pay them full wages and respect their rights as employees,” De Jesus mentioned. “Employers who adjust to labor regulation and recognize the dignity of labor may have a transparent benefit in relation to retaining and recruiting the folks they want for his or her companies to function.”
Staff who consider they aren’t getting totally paid can contact a Wage and Hour official of their state by accessing the DOL’s interactive map.
