Dietitians Hit Renal Advantage With a Class Action Lawsuit With Help From the San Diego Overtime Attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik

Renal Advantage intentionally misclassified Dietitians in order to make them exempt from overtime compensation.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 17, 2011

On August 15, 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against Renal Advantage, Inc. by the San Diego overtime lawyers at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik on behalf of Dietitians who claim the dialysis centers violated their rights under the California Labor Code. The lawsuit against Renal Advantage for wage & hour violations was filed in San Diego Superior Court and is entitled Rosenberg vs. Renal Advantage, Case No. 37-2011-00096307.

According to the complaint, dietitians allege that Renal Advantage failed to "properly compensate them for overtime hours worked" and illicitly prevented them from viewing complete and accurate wage statements, in violation of California overtime pay laws. The complaint asserts that Renal Advantage intentionally misclassified dietitians as exempt from state overtime requirements in order to avoid paying them overtime compensation.

The dietitians claim they should not have been classified as exempt from overtime pay under the law because they never acted as executives or professionals “engaged in the traditional professions of medicine,” which therefore means they should have been classified as non-exempt employees, entitled to overtime compensation for all hours worked in excess of eight in a workday and forty in a workweek under the California Labor Code.

Further allegations in the Renal Advantage Dietitian class action lawsuit state that the dialysis centers systematically failed to provide complete and accurate wage statements to the employees, in violation of California Labor Code. Specifically, the complaint asserts that Renal Advantage provided wage statements “which failed to show, among other things, the number of hours worked.” According to California Labor Code, employers are required to give all employees itemized wage statements which accurately show gross wages along with the corresponding hourly rates for all time worked, throughout the pay period.

For more information on the lawsuit, visit the Renal Advantage Dietitian class action website or call (866) 771-7099.

The San Diego overtime law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik have a statewide practice of representing employees on a contingency basis for violations involving wages and hours, overtime pay, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and other types of illegal workplace conduct.

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