A nursing home owed $53,000 in back pay after funny business with meal breaks
A Tampa nursing home paid $53,018 in back pay after the way it handled meal breaks resulted in federal overtime violations, the Department of Labor announced.
Gandy Crossing Care Center owed that money to 105 workers, an average of $504.93 per employee, after Wage and Hour Division investigators found the nursing home deducted time from the workers’ pay for meal breaks, no matter if they worked through that time or not. When employees worked through their meal breaks, Gandy got free work.
Gandy is owned by Gandy SNF, a company registered in Florida by S Manhattan Ave LLC, a Montebello, New York corporation.
“Employers have an obligation to pay their employees for all the hours that they work,” Tampa Wage and Hour Division District Director James Schmidt said in a statement. “Other employers who automatically deduct time for meal breaks should use this investigation as an opportunity to evaluate their practices to make sure they are capturing all their employees’ hours and not committing the same violation that we found in this case.”
Employers can deal with overtime or minimum wage violations without litigation by self-reporting through the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program.
