In urgent care centers, workdays may be long and hard. For clinicians who split their hours of work between two jointly owned central Florida facilities, their employers made the work a bit harder by failing to pay them all of their legally earned wages. US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found 441 Urgent Care LLC and Santos Primary Care Centers PLLC — which share common ownership — failed to combine hours employees worked at both care centers when determining when overtime was due. As a result, the employers failed to pay overtime when employees’ hours totaled more than 40 in a workweek, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition, the employers did not keep accurate records, another FLSA violation. The two primary care centers paid $41,509 in back wages to 27 clinicians.
