April 15, 2025
A class of drivers alleging a medical transportation services company didn’t pay full wages succeeded on its claim that the firm is a general contractor to other companies that directly employed the drivers, but failed to show the firm was the workers’ joint employer, a D.C. federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta granted the drivers’ motion for summary judgment Friday as it pertained to Medical Transportation Management Inc.’s status as a general contractor, but denied the motion as to the drivers’ claims that MTM was their joint employer.
The class of hundreds of drivers alleged that MTM — which contracts with D.C. to deliver nonemergency medical transportation services to Medicaid recipients — paid them a flat rate that regularly fell below the legally required minimum wage and failed to pay them overtime wages.
The drivers said MTM did not directly employ them, but the company has many subcontractor transportation service providers, or TSPs, that in turn employ the class of drivers who take patients to and from their medical appointments.
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The drivers are represented by Wendy Liu and Michael T. Kirkpatrick of Public Citizen Litigation Group and Harini Srinivasan and Joseph M. Sellers of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.