Siemens Healthineers Overtime Lawsuit Investigation: Were You Underpaid?
Last Updated on July 11, 2023
At A Glance
- This Alert Affects:
- Siemens Healthineers employees who received overtime pay and bonuses or incentive payments within the last three years.
- What’s Going On?
- Attorneys are investigating whether the medical technology company properly pays its employees for their overtime work. If not, a class action lawsuit could be filed.
- How Could a Class Action Help?
- A class action lawsuit could give employees the chance to recover back wages and force the company to make changes to its overtime pay practices.
- What You Can Do
- If you are or were employed by Siemens Healthineers, worked overtime, and received bonuses or incentive payments in the last three years, fill out the form on this page. You may have been underpaid.
- Can I Be Fired for Speaking Up?
- Federal law strictly prohibits companies from retaliating against employees simply because they’ve exercised their legal rights.
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org would like to speak to anyone who received overtime pay and bonuses or incentive payments within the last three years while working at Siemens Healthineers.
It’s being investigated whether the medical technology company is properly paying its employees for their overtime work.
Specifically, attorneys are looking into whether Siemens Healthineers includes bonuses and other extra payments when calculating how much employees should be paid for each hour of overtime. If not, the company may be violating wage law and underpaying employees for their overtime work.
Did you work at Siemens Healthineers in the past three years? If you received overtime and bonuses or incentive payments, fill out the form on this page. You may have been underpaid and could potentially start a class action lawsuit to recover any earned but unpaid wages.
Bonuses & Overtime Pay
In general, federal law requires that most employees are entitled to one-and-a-half times their regular rates of pay for each hour worked beyond 40 in a single workweek.
To determine how much an employee should earn for each overtime hour, it must first be determined what their “regular” rate of pay is.
In the simplest instance, an employee earns $20 per hour and no additional form of compensation, making their “regular” rate of pay $20.
Certain employees, however, are entitled to bonuses, including incentive payments, which may actually make their “regular” rates of pay – and therefore their overtime pay rates – higher than normal.
Indeed, federal law states that “non-discretionary” bonuses – that is, those given to encourage employees to work more efficiently and stay with the company, safety bonuses, bonuses for quality of work, etc. – must be included when calculating an employee’s “regular” rate of pay.
If bonuses are not factored in when calculating a worker’s rate of overtime pay, that employee may be getting illegally underpaid when working extra hours.
How Could a Class Action Lawsuit Help?
If filed and successful, a class action lawsuit could give employees the chance to recover any unpaid overtime wages. It could also force the company to change how it calculates overtime pay.
If you worked for Siemens Healthineers, received bonuses or incentive payments, and believe you may have been underpaid for your overtime hours, fill out the form on this page to learn more about this investigation.
It doesn’t cost anything to get in touch, and federal law makes it illegal for companies to retaliate against employees simply because they’ve exercised their legal rights.
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