EDWARDSVILLE — A flight nurse for an Illinois air medical service provider claims she is not being compensated for overtime work.
Shannon Dugger filed a complaint Feb. 5 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Air Methods Corporation, alleging violation of the Illinois Minimum Wage Law, unjust enrichment and willful and wanton negligence.
According to Dugger's complaint, she is employed as a flight nurse for Air Methods Corporation as a "non-exempt" employee at its Litchfield base. She claims she is "generally required" to work two 24-hour shifts per week and that she spends "all 24 hours either responding to emergency calls" or at Air Methods' facilities so she is able to "swiftly respond to emergency calls." Dugger alleges that she worked more than 40 hours per week with Air Methods failing to pay one and one-half times her regular pay rate in overtime pay. She further alleges that Air Methods required her to agree to treat eight hours of each shift as "sleep time" and to be paid straight time unless the "sleep time" was "interrupted." Dugger claims this agreement is unenforceable under Illinois law.
Dugger seeks monetary and all other proper relief. She is represented by Mark Schuver, Deanna Litzenburg and Natalie Lorenz of Mathis, Marifian & Richter LTD in Belleville, Troy Walton of Walton Telken LLC in Edwardsville and Aaron Zigler of The Zigler Law Group LLC in Chiago.
Madison County Circuit Court case number 21-L-000171