Select Rehabilitation and Reliant Rehab may have violated state and federal overtime laws by not paying employees for all hours they worked.

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Feldman Legal Group is investigating potential claims on behalf of therapists working for Select Rehabilitation and Reliant Rehab.

The investigation concerns whether the two companies have engaged in practices that deny workers overtime pay that those workers earned.

Overtime pay is required under state law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). By law, all hourly paid employees are entitled to overtime pay at no less than time and a half of the employee's regular rate of pay.

Alleged Practices Related to Denial of Overtime Pay

Productivity Requirement Scheme: The lawsuit alleges that Select Rehabilitation and Reliant Rehab used a productivity requirement scheme to avoid paying overtime wages.

Under this alleged scheme, if overtime hours were reported, a therapist would fail the productivity standard and would be subject to disciplinary action, including termination of employment.

Discouraged Full Reporting of Hours Worked: The lawsuit also alleges that Select Rehabilitation and Reliant Rehab discouraged reporting of overtime hours and encouraged off the clock work in an attempt to keep employees from complaining and reporting their overtime hours.

Mitchell Feldman, an attorney at Feldman Legal Group, explains that the companies allegedly used this practice "to maximize Medicare...

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