Cleveland Hospital System Fails to Shed Hour Rounding Wage Suit

MetroHealth System must face a proposed class action alleging it failed to pay employees for all time worked due to a rounding policy that edited clock-in and clock-out times.

The complaint sufficiently alleged MetroHealth maintained records of employees’ times but still enacted a policy to “systematically underpay employees for purposes of saving money” in willful violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio said. Judge Bridget Meehan Brennan’s Monday order mostly rejected the hospital’s bid to toss the suit.

MetroHealth’s timekeeping policy states that if an employee clocks in up to ...