Former New York Presbyterian Hospital Nurse Files Suit Over Allegedly Unpaid Wages

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A former New York Presbyterian Hospital nurse claims she was not paid proper wages for every hour worked, including for hours worked in excess of 40 per week or 10 per day.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff worked for the defendants—Columbia University Health Care, Inc., The New York and Presbyterian Hospital, and Trustaff Travel Nurses, LLC— as a resident nurse between April 13 and June 6, 2020 without being paid for any hours worked during her final workweek.

The plaintiff says she worked 46 hours per week and put in another 46 hours during her last week at the hospital. Per the complaint, the woman worked more than 10 hours per day for four days in a row during her final week.

The lawsuit alleges the defendants, who the plaintiff says agreed to pay her a regular rate of about $49.00 per hour and $124.34 for overtime hours, owe the woman unpaid minimum and overtime wages, as well as spread-of-hours wages for the days in which she put in more than 10 hours.

Moreover, the case says the hospital operators failed to provide the plaintiff with a “notice and acknowledgment” at her time of hire and kept no posted notices explaining employees’ minimum wage rights under state and federal law in the workplace.

According to the suit, the plaintiff and similarly situated employees “were uninformed of their rights during such times.”

The plaintiff looks to represent all similarly situated former and current employees who worked for the defendants at any time within the past three years and until judgment is entered in the case.

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