A Westminster healthcare management company, a large employer in long-term care and rehabilitation, could have shown more care when paying 256 essential workers at four facilities in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland. The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay required overtime to employees who worked over 40 hours in a workweek. The employer violated the law by failing to include earned bonuses in the calculation of overtime pay, including sign-on bonuses, retention bonuses and bonuses for working extra shifts. Excluding these amounts resulted in the employer paying overtime at rates lower than those required by law.
