The FLSA requires employers to pay workers time and a half their regular rate of pay when they work more than 40 hours per week. Under the Portal-to-Portal Act, which amended the FLSA, employers don’t owe pay for time workers spend traveling to and from the place of principal work activities or for time they spend on preliminary or postliminary activities.
Seeking Class and Collective Action
Lane seeks to represent a collective under the FLSA of all current and former nurses and technicians who did not receive overtime as a result of Detroit Medical Center’s alleged unlawful policies in the past three years. She also aims to represent a class under state law of all current and former nurses and technicians who did not receive straight-time pay when they worked fewer than 40 hours per week in the past six years.
Legal Representation
Lane is represented by Ricardo J. Prieto and Melinda Arbuckle of the Wage and Hour Firm and by David M. Blanchard of Blanchard & Walker PLLC. Counsel information for Detroit Medical Center was not available Wednesday. Representatives of the parties did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
