JERSEY CITY, NJ, UNITED STATES, October 7, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Earlier this year, Brown, LLC filed a collective and class action lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) and state law against Fast Pace Medical Clinic d/b/a Fast Pace Health (Hutchinson v. Fast Pace Health, Case No. 22-CV-00511 (M.D. Tenn.). Fast Pace Health operates more than 170 urgent care facilities in numerous states including Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
The collective and class action complaint alleged, among other things, that Fast Pace automatically shaved off 30 minutes per shift for meal breaks that employees did not always take. This allegedly resulted in hourly-paid healthcare workers not receiving all of the wages they were owed, including overtime premium wages under the FLSA.
To date, two judgments have been entered against the Defendants on behalf of two plaintiffs with more to follow. Some workers who opted into the case received Rule 68 Offers of Judgment from the Defendant Fast Pace, and the Court has now entered judgments against Fast Pace in favor of those plaintiffs. Defendants still technically deny liability, but due to the procedural mechanisms of Rule 68 Offers of Judgment, there now stands two separate judgments against them for complaints that alleged wage and hour violations.
Brown, LLC is a litigation law firm, led by a former FBI Special Agent, that has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of...
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