Healthcare professionals work tirelessly to provide essential care, yet many are not fairly compensated for every hour they work. If you are a hospital employee, you may be entitled to back pay due to improper wage deductions.

Unpaid Meal Breaks If you have worked through part or all of your meal breaks—whether due to patient care responsibilities, staff shortages, or other job demands—you may be owed back pay. Employers cannot automatically deduct meal breaks when they are not truly uninterrupted.

Illegal Time Rounding Many hospitals round clock-in and clock-out times, which can lead to significant wage losses over time. Even small rounding adjustments—such as a few minutes per shift—can accumulate into substantial unpaid wages over months or years. If your employer rounds time in a manner that consistently favors the hospital, you may have a valid claim.

Know Your Rights If you believe you have been affected by unpaid meal breaks or improper time rounding, you may have legal options to recover your rightful wages. Healthcare professionals work hard and deserve to be fairly compensated for every minute they dedicate to patient care.

Experience Matters

Sauder Schelkopf has a nationally recognized litigation practice. The firm currently serves as court-appointed lead counsel in courts across the country.  The attorneys at Sauder Schelkopf have recovered over $1 billion on behalf of their clients and class members. Our firm was recognized by the Legal Intelligencer’s 2022 Professional Excellence Awards. The Legal Intelligencer’s Professional Excellence Awards honor Pennsylvania law firms and attorneys who have made a significant, positive impact on the legal profession. Our firm was named in the Litigation Departments of the Year (Specialty Area category; runner-up), an award that honors the best litigation practice in a small or mid-sized firm in Pennsylvania. This recognition was based on the firm’s 2021 litigation work and its important ongoing cases. LawDragon has recognized our attorneys in its list of the “500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers” for 2022.  This list notes: “From the opioid epidemic to toxic substances and defective products, truck accidents to wildfires and sexual abuse, these are the lawyers who stand on the front line in individual lawsuits and class actions seeking justice.” Mr. Schelkopf was named to Pennsylvania’s Best Lawyers® 2022 for Class Actions/Mass Tort Litigation. The American Lawyer named Mr. Sauder to its 2021 Northeast Trailblazers. The honor recognizes 60 lawyers who are “truly agents of change.” It “recognizes professionals in the Northeast who have moved the needle in the legal industry.” The Legal Intelligencer named Mr. Sauder and Mr. Schelkopf in its 2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazers list recognizing 31 lawyers who “have taken extra measures to contribute to positive outcomes . . . and who are truly agents of change.” The Legal highlighted the firm’s innovative work on advocacy as class counsel in large institutional sex abuse cover-ups, women’s, and children’s rights. Our attorneys have also consistently been recognized by their peers being named to Pennsylvania SuperLawyer, a distinction held by the top 5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania.  The National Trial Lawyers Association has also selected our attorneys as the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania.

We Want to Hear from You

If you believe you have been affected by unpaid meal breaks or improper time rounding, you may have legal options to recover your rightful wages; you can contact the attorneys at Sauder Schelkopf by filling out the form on this page.