Askins & Miller Orthopaedics, Owners Pegged with FLSA Lawsuit

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Askins & Miller Orthopaedics and three individuals with control over the business are the defendants in a proposed class action out of Florida that alleges the parties owe unpaid wages that are “long past due.” The plaintiff, who was hired by the defendants as a clinical nurse in November 2015, alleges the defendants’ non-payment of wages, of which she herself is supposedly owed $1,920, represents a pattern dating back roughly two years from the suit’s filing.

According to the complaint, the defendants routinely issued checks to employees that they knew or should have known would bounce or be returned due to insufficient funds. When the plaintiff confronted the defendants about the fact she had not been paid overdue wages, the case says one individual defendant, a manager, blamed another defendant, an owner, for “personally taking wages” that should’ve gone to the plaintiff. Further still, the case claims the manager defendant arbitrarily decides what employees would or would not be paid during any given pay period.