Two Pennsylvania nursing facilities operated by Spring Creek SNF LLC and Franklin Center OPCO LLC have been ordered to pay $256,684 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to 231 nursing staff, the Labor Department said Thursday.
A Wage and Hour Division investigation found that the employers engaged in pay practices that violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying non-discretionary bonuses to nursing staff without including the incentives in their pay rate when calculating overtime rates, according to the DOL.
The consent judgment from the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which also ...
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