ER and labor and delivery staff got shorted $107,000 in pay by their hospital
A non-profit St. Augustine hospital will pay $107,185 in back pay after it got caught improperly deducting time from certain employees’ timecards, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
Flagler Hospital will pony up that money to 141 workers or about $760.18 per worker.
When Wage and Hour Division investigators looked into Flagler, it found the hospital automatically subtracted time for meal breaks for the emergency room and labor and delivery workers, even when they worked through those breaks. That resulted in unpaid overtime worked as well as recordkeeping violations.
“Non-profit organizations are not excluded from the pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act,” said Wage and Hour District Director Daniel White. “Employees must be paid all the wages they have legally earned.”
Businesses who find they’ve violated overtime or minimum wage laws can use the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program to self-report and deal with the situation without litigation.
This story was originally published February 6, 2020 at 6:29 AM.
