Employees Sue MMR Senior Alliance Corp for ‘Cheating’ Them Out of Wages

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Three former/current employees of MMR Senior Alliance Corp (which does business as Right at Home of Middle Tennessee) have filed suit against the company and an individual owner claiming they were not paid proper wages. The plaintiffs, two of whom no longer work for the defendants, were employed as Caregivers responsible for providing in-home assistance to elderly clients, and upon being hired were reportedly promised an hourly rate of $10 plus time-and-a-half overtime wages for any hours worked above 40 in a week.

The first plaintiff argues that the defendants, “without any notice or justification,” would at times pay her only $9 per hour and $13.50 per overtime hour and would not pay her at all for work she performed on holidays. The case mentions that in the summer of 2017, the woman was effectively fired after being told by the defendants that “they did not have sufficient work for her.”

The second plaintiff claims the individual defendant altered her logged hours to reflect only the time she was scheduled to work, rather than the time she actually spent working, in an effort to avoid paying her overtime. The woman further alleges that if she worked more than 40 hours in one week, the defendants would subtract any hours above 40 and add them to a week during which she worked fewer than 40 hours, effectively changing her overtime hours to straight-time hours.

The third plaintiff alleges similar violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and further notes that the defendants allegedly began paying her a fixed salary every two weeks instead of an hourly wage because, as the individual defendant explained to her, “the company could not afford to pay overtime at the promised rates.” She, too, claims the defendants failed to pay her for holiday work and even attempted to classify her as an office worker to limit her pay.