A Philadelphia-based medical staffing provider will pay $9.3 million in back wages and damages to more than 1,750 employees who were denied overtime pay following a consent judgement obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.
U.S. Medical Staffing, Inc., which is headquartered near Broad and Walnut Streets, will also pay a $700,000 civil penalty, court documents indicate. The judgement was secured by the labor department’s Office of the Solicitor in Philadelphia in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Monday.
The labor department filed its complaint against U.S. Medical Staffing earlier this month, alleging that the medical staffing company denied 1,756 employees overtime pay between September 2017 and May. The company provides medical staff such as residential aides, personal care assistants, and licensed practical nurses to clients that include schools and group homes throughout the Philadelphia area.
An investigation found that U.S. Medical Services paid the employees their standard rate for hours over the standard 40-hour workweek, rather than the time-and-a-half rate required under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In some instances, the company also misclassified employees as independent contractors, or claimed to be a registry for its clients to employ workers, the labor department said in a statement.
A representative for U.S. Medical Staffing did not immediately respond to request for comment. The company agreed to the judgement after...
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