The federal government says 13 health care employees at Detroit Medical Center got cheated out of pay they were owed for working through their meal breaks.
But the feds got it back for them — $46,864 to be exact.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced the recovery on Tuesday, saying an investigation found that DMC's payroll system was automatically deducting 13 workers' meal breaks from their paychecks when the demands of the job forced them to work through their breaks.
“This case should remind all employers to verify and validate employee’s hours worked and to not rely solely on automated payroll systems,” said Timolin Mitchell, director of the wage and hour district in Detroit for the U.S. Department of Labor. “Health care workers provide essential services to help people in need, but remain among our nation’s lowest-paid workers. They depend upon every dollar earned to support themselves and their families.”
The Department of Labor noted that in many professions, particularly the health care industry, the demands of the job sometimes require working through lunch or dinner breaks. Under federal law, those workers must still be paid for those breaks.
In the DMC case, the government said it learned the health care organization was automatically deducting meal periods from workers' pay — even though they worked through them — and did not make proper adjustments for those who worked through meal breaks. This violates overtime requirements...
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