Former Room Attendant Sues Loews Philadelphia Hotel Over Alleged Wage Violations, Discrimination

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Twelfth Street Hotel Associates is facing a proposed collective and class action filed by a former employee who claims the company failed to pay proper overtime wages and fired him based on his disability. The defendant, which does business as Loews Philadelphia Hotel, hired the plaintiff as a room attendant and allegedly required that he and similarly situated employees work more than 40 hours per week. In what the case alleges is a “long-term scheme of wage abuse,” the hotel didn’t pay employees proper time-and-a-half overtime wages for the hours they worked over 40 each week and automatically deducted 30 minutes of pay from their wages for meal breaks they were often not permitted to take.

Furthermore, the plaintiff claims he had been seriously injured in a car accident in 2014, suffering a broken shoulder, collapsed lung, and “bleeding in his brain.” He supposedly informed the defendants of his disability upon his hire in January 2017 but was never told that there would be an issue with his employment. In May 2017, the case continues, the plaintiff presented his manager with a doctor’s note requesting “light duty accommodations” and she allegedly responded with, “well you can’t work then.” The man says his managers began “acting cold towards him” after this incident, which he claims led to his termination. Later in May, the man was supposedly called into the company’s human resources department and told the hotel “could no longer accommodate him.” Citing potential violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the plaintiff argues that his termination constituted discrimination based on his disability.