Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating whether construction workers assigned to hospital, medical-center, and healthcare-facility projects in Washington, D.C. were paid for all hours and at the correct rates.
What is the issue?
DC hospital construction often occurs in active healthcare facilities. Workers may have to pass through security, complete infection-control procedures, install protective barriers, use designated entrances, wait for escorts, coordinate shutdowns, or perform noisy and disruptive work overnight.
These requirements can create compensable work and waiting time outside the worker’s scheduled installation hours. Workers may also perform emergency or accelerated work that pushes weekly hours above 40.
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire-protection, HVAC, controls, drywall, and laborer crews may be supplied through several layers of subcontractors and labor brokers.
Workers may have experienced:
- Unpaid hospital screening, badging, or access time.
- Unpaid infection-control setup or cleanup.
- Waiting without pay for escorts, shutdowns, inspections, or patient areas to clear.
- Straight-time pay for overnight or weekend overtime.
- Flat daily rates for long shifts.
- Employee misclassification.
- Hours split among different hospital buildings or contractors.
- Missing shift premiums promised by the employer.
- Deductions for parking, tools, uniforms, or protective equipment.
- Missing paid sick and safe leave.
Signs you may be affected
- You worked on construction or renovation at a hospital, medical center, clinic, laboratory, or other healthcare facility in Washington, D.C.
- You worked for a subcontractor, staffing company, labor broker, or specialty contractor rather than directly for the project’s general contractor.
- You performed security screening, infection-control procedures, equipment setup, or cleanup before or after your scheduled shift without compensation.
- You worked more than 40 hours in a week but did not receive proper overtime pay.
- You were promised a night, weekend, shutdown, or shift premium that did not appear on your paycheck.
- Your employer failed to pay you for waiting time caused by escorts, patient-care restrictions, inspections, or required shutdowns.
Workers should preserve badges, orientation records, infection-control logs, parking records, text messages, schedules, paystubs, photographs, and work orders identifying the project.
If you performed construction, renovation, installation, infection-control setup, demolition, cleanup, material-handling, equipment installation, or other site-support work at a DC hospital or medical facility and believe required time or overtime was unpaid, please contact Migliaccio & Rathod LLP through the form below, by email at [email protected], or by telephone at (202) 470-3520.