WASHINGTON D.C — Healthcare recruiters are often improperly denied overtime pay by their employers. Recruiters often work long and hard hours, many times making phone calls after work and from home. Recruiting physicians, nurses, and other healthcare specialists is an all-encompassing job and involves communications with prospective employees and employers from all over the world. The duties involved in this line of work include:
- Finding prospective candidates
- Pre-qualifying candidates and performing background checks
- Qualifying the healthcare candidates for specific jobs once screened
- Interviewing candidates on the telephone
- Arranging in-person interviews with the healthcare companies
- Negotiation salaries and benefits for the healthcare job
Recruiters often work “in-house” for company or as an outside recruiter for a recruiting firm or agency. Outside recruiters often work for many different employers at the same time trying to locate employees to fill healthcare jobs. Some recruiters work at staffing firms to line up professionals for short term positions in different locations for a medical provider.
Most healthcare recruiting jobs require more than a typical forty hour work week. Recruiters often work from home at night, making telephone calls to prospective candidates and researching important information on the internet. The job also often requires lunch or dinner meetings after hours to meet with job candidates and their families. Travel is often required for healthcare recruiters.
Despite working more than forty hours per week, healthcare staffing recruiters are often not paid overtime wages or denied overtime pay by their employer. Many times the employer will improperly classify the employee as a position that is exempt from overtime pay to avoid paying overtime wages. This is illegal and in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Lawsuits are being filed for recruiters who have not been properly paid overtime wages and these lawsuits seek unpaid overtime pay, attorney’s fees, and other damages.
If you are a healthcare recruiter and believe you are owed back overtime pay, call our unpaid overtime lawyers today at (855) 754-2795 for a free overtime lawsuit case review. We will listen to your work situation and advise you if you were underpaid by your employer and have the right to file an overtime pay claim.