Adams, et al. v. Roper St. Francis

Adams, et al. v. Roper St. Francis

Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox LLP partnered with Anderson Alexander, PLLC and Falls Legal, LLC to file a federal class and collective action in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina before the Honorable Judge Hendricks. The lawsuit, whose case number is 2:25-cv-13409-BHH, was filed on behalf of all current and former hourly employees with patient care responsibilities who worked for the Roper St. Francis Healthcare system in South Carolina at any point in the last three (3) years. Plaintiffs claim that Roper St. Francis enacted certain policies and practices that caused it to improperly pay its employees for all hours worked and, as a result, Roper St. Francis violated state and federal law. Some examples of these policies and practices are:

1. Roper St. Francis used a payroll system that automatically deducted a thirty (30) minute meal break from its employees' daily time, even though they regularly worked through their lunch to provide care to patients and complete other work-related tasks such as attending mandatory staff meetings.
2. Roper St. Francis failed to include its employees' bonuses and shift differentials into its calculation of its' employees' regular rate of pay. When employees received overtime, they were not paid at the correct rate.
3. Roper St. Francis employed a time rounding policy that rounds its' employees' clock-in and out times to the nearest fifteen-minute increment. This policy is improper and non-neutral and ultimately failed to compensate its employees for all hours worked.

These policies and practices violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the South Carolina Payment of Wages Act. The plaintiffs are attempting to recover all unpaid compensation, liquidated damages, and attorneys' fees and costs on behalf of themselves and other affected employees.

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