Two Consultants Claim Optimum Healthcare IT Owes Unpaid Overtime

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Two Ohio-based plaintiffs who worked as recordkeeping support and training consultants for Optimum Healthcare IT, LLC claim the company has violated federal and three states’ labor laws by failing to pay proper overtime wages. Filed in Pennsylvania and covering four proposed classes of current and former Optimum Healthcare consultants, the lawsuit claims the plaintiffs were paid only at their straight-time rate for all hours worked, despite, for example, periods in which the workers sometimes put in 12 hours per day, seven days per week, at locations nationwide.

In arguing Optimum Healthcare IT violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by failing to pay overtime, the lawsuit claims the company and its senior management “had no reasonable basis to believe that [the plaintiffs] and members of the FLSA class were exempt from the requirements of the FLSA.” To this point, the case asserts the company’s alleged overtime violations were willful, claiming payroll records in fact reflected proposed class members regularly worked upward of 40 hours per week.