Reliant Realty Services Among Four Defendants in Ex-Maintenance Worker’s Wage and Hour Case

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Reliant Realty Services, LLC and three other defendants— Reliant Realty Services, Inc.; Harborview Towers Developers, LLC; and Harborview Towers, LP—are facing a former maintenance worker’s lawsuit in which the man claims he’s owed unpaid overtime wages. The plaintiff—who worked for the defendants from February 2015 through August 2017–alleges he was paid time-and-a-half wages for only some of his hours worked past 40 each week. Further, the complaint claims the man received lodging from the companies valued at roughly $1,006 per month, but that the defendants failed to include the value of this lodging when calculating the plaintiff’s regular hourly rate for the purposes of calculating overtime. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the complaint states, requires that the fair value of employer-provided lodging must be added to a worker’s cash wages before his or her regular pay rate is determined.

The plaintiff further claims he was frequently required to work during at least part of his unpaid lunch break, as well as before or after his scheduled shift times on some days, without compensation. The defendants also required the plaintiff be on-call for emergency situations without additional compensation, the suit claims.