The Habitat Company of Alabama Hit with FLSA Lawsuit

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A proposed class action has been filed against The Habitat Company of Alabama, LLC and The Habitat Company LLC over claims the businesses violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay current and former maintenance supervisors proper overtime wages. 

The case notes proposed class members worked as maintenance supervisors for the defendants’ predecessor, Blue Rock Properties LLC, which paid them proper hourly and overtime wages. Once the defendants took over management of proposed class members and the properties they oversaw, the lawsuit claims the workers were unlawfully misclassified as exempt from overtime pay and instead paid a salary. According to the suit, the plaintiff and similarly situated workers put in between 60 and 70 hours per week—without being paid proper time-and-a-half overtime—as a result of understaffing and renovations being done to apartment units.

The case goes on to mention that the defendants employed a strict policy dictating that workers would be fired if they worked overtime without going through an approval process. The issue, the lawsuit continues, is that the plaintiff and proposed class members’ jobs often required more than 40 hours of work to be fully completed, which led workers to “consistently and repeatedly” work off the clock.