Healthcare Consulting Service Tegria Hit with Class Action Over Alleged Wage and Hour Violations

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A proposed class and collective action claims that Tegria Holdings, LLC has “knowingly” failed to pay employees proper overtime wages for work that exceeded 40 hours per week.

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The 25-page lawsuit says that Tegria, a company that provides consulting and technology services to healthcare clients, has run afoul of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in that its consultants “routinely” worked over 40 hours—and typically more than 80 hours—per week yet were not paid at their time-and-a-half rate for overtime hours worked in excess of 40 in a week.

Though project assignments often required the consultants to work “12 hours a day, 7 days a week,” the employees were paid only a “straight hourly rate” by Tegria, despite frequently qualifying for overtime pay by FLSA standards, the suit shares.

The case points out that Tegria was well-aware that its consultants were regularly putting in over 40 hours per week, as its payroll records plainly reflected the additional time.

In addition, though there is an overtime exemption under the FLSA for employees in highly skilled computer-related positions, the complaint makes clear that Tegria’s consultants merely trained hospital staff in new software. Therefore, the filing contends, Tegria had no reason to believe that the employees were in any way exempt from federal overtime wage requirements.

The three plaintiffs, residents of Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, each worked as consultants providing technical training to Tegria’s clients in states such as New York, California, Maine and Illinois at various times between 2018 and 2022, the case relays.

The lawsuit looks to represent anyone in the United States who worked for Tegria Holdings, LLC and provided software training to hospital workers at any time since April 20, 2020. The suit also aims to cover those who worked for Tegria and provided software training to healthcare clients in New York at any time since April 20, 2017.

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