Northeast Community Center for Behavioral Health Sued Over Alleged Unpaid Wages

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A proposed class and collective action claims Northeast Community Center for Behavioral Health has failed to properly pay employees for off-the-clock work and overtime hours.

According to the case, the defendant, a Philadelphia-based behavioral health, addictions recovery and intellectual disabilities services provider, was aware of and allowed blended case managers such as the plaintiff to work off the clock without proper compensation  in accordance with state and federal law.

Northeast Community Center for Behavioral Health operates through a contract with Philadelphia to provide various behavioral health services, the case states. The plaintiff says he worked for the defendant as a blended case manager between February 2019 and June 2020 and put in between 43 to 50 hours per week. Other blended case managers put in similar hours and frequently worked through lunch, according to the suit.

The lawsuit claims the defendant has willfully failed to keep records of blended case managers’ hours in order to avoid paying them for every hour worked, including overtime hours worked in excess of 40 weekly hours. 

“Defendant knew or, absent its own recklessness should have known, that the Blended Case Managers were entitled to such pay,” the complaint alleges, adding that both state and federal law require workers to be paid for all hours worked and receive time-and-a-half premium wages for overtime hours.

According to the suit, the defendant has “acted willfully and with reckless disregard of clearly applicable [Fair Labor Standards Act] provisions” in failing to properly pay blended case managers.

The lawsuit looks to represent all former and current blended case managers who were paid by the defendant in Pennsylvania during the applicable statute of limitations period.

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