RICHMOND HILL, Ga. — The U.S. Department of Labor says an urgent care clinic in east Georgia failed to pay its workers for required meetings, trainings and time, as well as multiple hours of overtime.
According to USDOL, Premier Health Consultants not only failed to pay its employees about $113,000 in wages and overtime, it even suspended an employee who asked about it, in a retaliatory action.
Premier Health Consultants, which was operating as St. Joseph Candler Urgent Care, was investigated and found to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying straight time instead of one-and-a-half time for overtime on any hours worked beyond 40.
Some of the overtime applied to mandatory orientation, meetings and training.
USDOL said the clinic also made employees work off the clock, resulting in unpaid overtime.
Now, USDOL says it has recovered $113,199 in back wages.
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