Electronic health record company faces overtime suit
As many as 1,000 current and former employees of a Wisconsin-based health records company may be entitled to previously unpaid overtime.
The lawsuit, filed by one former employee but seeking certification as a class action, alleges that the business did not properly track employee time, according to local news source The Wisconsin State Journal. Because the suit claims the employee and others performed duties as non-technical, quality assurance personnel and worked more than 40 hours per week, it calls for unpaid overtime due to all such workers.
The Fair Labor Standards Act states that some computer personnel may be excluded from overtime provisions if they fulfill certain criteria for their job functions and are paid at least $455 per week or $27.63 per hour.
The electronic health records company has stated that because the employees fit the definition of computer-oriented positions provided by the FLSA, they were compensated fairly. The business agrees that the suit's filer and others were quality assurance workers, but said that the vast majority of the job involved actions covered under the FLSA exemption, mostly related to the testing of software.
Employee management software, along with proper worker classification, can help businesses stay focused, productive and out of the court system.
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