Torah and the Twelve Steps Knocked with FLSA Class Action

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A proposed class action has been filed against Torah and the Twelve Steps, Inc. and Israel and Ruth Burns, the company’s owners, over alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The lawsuit was filed in Florida by an individual employed as a house worker who tended to aging and infirmed clients from May 2015 through early February 2017.

The plaintiff claims he worked an average of 135 hours per week for $7.25 per hour for the first 10 months of his employment without being paid time-and-a-half overtime wages. For the time period after those first 10 months, the plaintiff continues, he worked the same amount of hours, but was only paid an average of $1.01 per hour and was never paid time-and-a-half overtime.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s wages spread out over the number of hours he typically worked stand in violation of federal minimum wage and overtime law.