Lawsuit Claims Tri-State Careflight Owes Flight Nurses, Paramedics Unpaid OT

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A proposed class action brought by three plaintiffs against aerial medical transport company Tri-State Careflight, Inc. alleges flight nurses and paramedics regularly work more than 40 hours per week without being paid time-and-a-half overtime. Filed in Colorado, the lawsuit claims the employees regularly work more than 12 hours per workday, with shifts sometimes lasting between 24 and 48 hours, without being paid proper wages as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Colorado Minimum Wage of Workers Act. At particular issue in the case is the defendant’s pay policy dictating time worked over 96 hours, not 80 hours, in a two-week period is considered overtime to be paid at one and one-half times a workers’ regular hourly rate.