WAGE CLAIMS FOR NURSING HOME EMPLOYEES
Many nursing homes and long-term care facilities use automatic time clock systems to track and record employees’ work hours. These systems are common for certified nursing assistants (CNAs), nurses, medication aides, dietary staff, housekeeping, and other facility employees.
However, some automatic timekeeping systems short staff members by:
- Automatically deducting meal breaks, even when you worked through lunch
- Clocking you out at your scheduled end time, even if you stayed late to finish patient care or charting
- Rounding your time in a way that reduces your paid hours
- Failing to record time spent preparing for shift report, completing documentation, or finishing resident care after your shift
In nursing homes, employees often arrive early for shift report, stay late to complete charting, respond to resident needs, or miss breaks due to understaffing. Employers cannot use automatic time clocks to avoid paying you for this time.
If you work through lunch, start early, stay late, attend mandatory meetings, or complete required documentation off the clock, you must be paid for that time.
Nursing homes are legally required to pay employees for all hours worked. Timekeeping systems that automatically deduct pay or round time in a way that consistently reduces your wages may violate wage and hour laws.
If you currently work—or previously worked—at a nursing home that used an automatic time clock and you were not paid for all of your work time, you may be entitled to recover unpaid wages. Workers with automatic deduction, off-the-clock, or late-pay issues can also review RM Legal’s pay claims for unpaid work overview.
Automatic time clocks that fail to record all time you work illegally short you. You are legally entitled to receive wages for all time you work.
You may be eligible to recover unpaid wages if you work or worked for an employer that used an automatic time clock and it failed to pay you for all of your work time. Please contact us to talk about your claim for unpaid wages.
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If you have proof of your employer’s commitment and unpaid wages, you may have a valid claim. Contact Rowdy Meeks Legal Group LLC to help you navigate your options and pursue an unpaid wage case.
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