Might I be entitled to back wages?    

You may if you:

• Worked as an hourly employee for a health care employer at some point in the last three years;
• Worked for at least part of a meal period; and
• Were not paid for that meal period.

To find out if our legal team may represent you, you need to contact us.

Might I be entitled to back wages?    

You may if you:

• Worked as an hourly employee for a health care employer in the Washington, D.C. metro area at some point in the last three years;
• Worked for at least part of a meal period; and
• Were not paid for that meal period.

To find out if our legal team may represent you, you need to contact us.

Are there any deadlines I need to worry about?    

Yes. If you are awarded money under federal law, you will likely be able to collect back wages for the three years immediately prior to the date of filing of your consent to join the lawsuit. Therefore, every day that you wait to contact our legal team means you could be losing some or all of your claim. If you do want to find out what, if anything, you may be owed, you should contact our legal team at once. However, you will not be represented by the law firm until a case is filed, you decide to participate in the case, and your consent form is filed with the court.

What is a collective action and who is involved?    

In a collective (or class) action lawsuit, one or more people called "Class Representatives" sue on behalf of other people who have similar claims. The current and former employees who submit their consent forms together are a 'Class' or 'Class Members'. The individuals who sued—and all the Class Members like them—are called the plaintiffs. The company that is sued is called the defendant. Unless each employee's case ends up being tried separately, one Court resolves the issues for everyone in the Class—except for those people who choose not to join the Class.

What would the lawsuit complain about?    

The lawsuit would complain that, among other things, your employer implemented a policy under which hourly employees were not paid for their meal periods, even though the employees did some work during those meal periods.

If the lawsuit is filed, the employees will request their unpaid overtime, as well as additional damages allowed by the law and your attorneys' fees.

Has a Court decided who is right?    

No, a Court hasn't decided whether your employer is correct. At this point, a Court has not yet determined whether the employees have similar enough claims that it makes sense to have those claims combined in one case.

Further, our legal team has not completed its investigation to determine if it makes sense to file a lawsuit. Therefore there is no money or benefits available now.

In any lawsuit involving these claims, the Court will decide whether people who have opted in may participate in the case as class members. Only people "similarly situated" to the plaintiffs may participate as class members.