Two nurses are suing a Texas-based nursing home chain, alleging the management company failed to properly calculate overtime rates and automatically deducted meal breaks even when staff didn’t get to take them.
The lawsuit against Priority Management Group, proposed as a class action, is the latest in a recent string to target nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over wage and hour issues.
Initial plaintiffs are Ebony Rogers, an assistant director of nursing,f and Willona Jean-Pierre, an MDS coordinator and former charge nurse, who both work at Priority’s Royse City Medical Lodge. The 4-star, 124-bed nursing home is in suburban Dallas…