Just Believe Recovery Center Facing Lawsuit Over Allegedly Unpaid Overtime Allegations

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Just Believe Recovery Center L.L.C joins JBRC Medical LLC; Just Believe Recovery Center of Port Saint Lucie, LLC; and the companies’ owner as defendants in a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims he was not paid properly for all overtime work.

According to the lawsuit, the defendants operate an addiction treatment facility in Martin County, Florida, where the plaintiff worked as a technician from June 2017 to March 2018. The man alleges he regularly worked in excess of 40 hours each week without appropriate time-and-a-half wages.

The case charges the defendants set forth a “calculated scheme” by which they sought to evade federal wage requirements. In this so-called “scheme,” the suit says, the defendants would require employees “to work in different areas of Defendants’ facility and pay them as if they were working for a different company” for each area. From the complaint:

“For example, during the pay period that ran from October 10 through October 20, 2017, Plaintiff received three different checks from each Defendant company for the same pay period in an attempt by Defendants to fraudulently avoid paying overtime.”

For the pay period referenced above, the case continues, the plaintiff received one check for 46 work hours from Just Believe Recover Center, another check for 20 hours from JBRC Medical, and a third check from Just Believe Recovery Center of Port Saint Lucie for 36 hours.