Nurse Files Suit Against South Jersey Healthcare Over Overtime Pay

An employee of Underwood-Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, N.J., has filed suit against employer and parent company Vineland, N.J.-based South Jersey Healthcare, alleging she has been denied proper overtime pay, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.

Nurse Katherine Dohanicz filed the suit, claiming the hospital's computerized payroll system tracks employees' check-in and check-out times to the exact minute. The alleged problem is that the system rounds those times to the nearest 15-minute interval when calculating payroll.

The lawsuit claims that the hospital has enacted a disciplinary system that "transforms the rounding system into [one] that is substantially rigged in the [hospital's] favor," according to the report.

South Jersey Healthcare said it is not its policy to comment on pending litigation, according to the report.

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