Plaintiffs v UMass Memorial Health Care
Lawsuit Charges UMass Memorial With Pay Abuses
A class action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court against several Massachusetts hospitals, including UMass Memorial Health Care, for allegedly failing to pay employees for all the hours they worked.
The suit charges that for years UMass and other hospitals have been automatically taking money from the employees paycheck each day, even though the employees have been working during their entire shift.
According to the lawsuit, although the UMass policy is to deduct 30 minutes of pay for each shift of its employees for meal breaks, it expects employees to be available to work throughout their shifts and consistently requires its employees to work during their unpaid meal breaks.
The lawsuit also alleges that UMass allowed employees who have joined the lawsuit to perform work before and after the end of their scheduled shift and failed to ensure that employees were relieved from their duties before and/or after the end of their scheduled shift. Other claims in the lawsuit allege that UMass made employees complete unpaid training sessions, and failed to note on paychecks that employees were not being properly paid for all the hours they worked.
Other healthcare systems in the state named in the lawsuit include Partners Healthcare System, Caritas Christi, the Boston Medical Center and CareGroup.
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