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The Bridges Center
The Bridges Center Inc Elana Winfrey, Payroll Wages not paid Atlanta, Georgia
15th of May, 2011 by User701395
I was working for TBC for a few months. I had recieved one check that was at the offered rate offered to me on date of hire. The next paycheck I didnt receive they sent out emails the day before stating that they were not able to compensate us on the paydate. Then GA DOL was and is investingating them and then all while they are hiring people every week and having these people leave good jobs and knowing not paying them and knowing not able to pay so they say. They are paying their employees minimum wage by the state and is not honoring their offer letter to their employees. After that pay date they stated they would pay us plus our back wages from the previous paychecks due to them giving minimum wage and then we didnt even get that. They then say on April 8th they will be giving us our pay in full. That day comes we receive minium wage again for 4 weeks then another email follows stating that we will start on monthly pay dates and the next pay date is May 13 2011. Because they only pay minimum wage the staff couldnt afford to make it to work or pay child care services and were terminated. By that time they are never going to send out my paycheck. Come to find out they owe alot of past employees by doing them the same and this has been going on for years now. Its a PONZEY scheme. (just like Bernard Madoff). Then on top of the employees losing their homes, cars and households the Winfreys never respoind to emials, phonecalls, etc when wondering where your paycheck is. "Now who is really the cowards"? as per Dr. Winfrey stated in the meeting.
Comments
4675 days ago by Buelahmae
Absolutely Shameful, I do not understand how she expects people to work for free
4667 days ago by Anonymous
this happened to me also...
4644 days ago by Sickofitall
It's sad that the company didn't want to pay you yet they threatened to fire you if you had a second job. How else were people supposed to make ends meet if you were working for fee at the bridges center?
4644 days ago by Godschild777
It is all true and pretty sad if you think about it. I feel for the families that has to go through this. I never worked with them but i had the opportunity to speak with them and meet some that came in to meet with our doctors. These families need TBC and for them not to be able to pay staff of course the families are affected. They let these workers come into their homes and allow their kids to open up and soon as they don't get paid there gone. I will never work for free unless I signed up to do so from the beginning. I just wish they can get it together. I pray they do quit before they are left with nothing. The truth behind some of it is that their in so much other financial debt already that they can never really save up to pay everyone reguardless of how hard employees work!
4631 days ago by Tree
they were a bunch of crooks the mother used to drive around in a 2011 caddy and would take trips to China every year with our money. Jamse winfrey who was black as night, 6'5 300lbs wore tailor made suits and drove a corvette. Elana was the spitting image of big bird drove a bmw and tight jeans. These people destroyed so many lives that i want o be in the court room because they need to go to jail for years.

they had no intention of paying anyone
4573 days ago by Feedup
I woltrked for The Bridges Center for a little over 2 years and this year has been extremely difficult not being paid by a company that you show up for work every single day and do what's to be done of you and not get paid for being an employee there. People are correct she does hire people to then turn around and fire people because she know that the company that she so calls owns is NOT PAYING her employees and expect you do come in everyday and work for her. She has committed so much fraud that it has finally came back to hurt her and her company which she SO DESERVE. It's sad to say that everyone had to leave her for it to sink in that no one and I do mean no one is going to work for free. Hopefully the DOL or APS has shut her down so that she can NEVER do this to anyone else.
4443 days ago by Atlvp
Unfortunately she is apparently still in business. I heard of a recent victim of this scam and googled the company. This family is now in ruin because a mother left one job for what she thought was going to be a better opportunity only to work weeks with no pay and then be fired, never ever receiving a paycheck. What can be done?
4439 days ago by Burned By TBC
It seems that nothing can be done.

I am also a victim. I was there 4 months and was let go, along with about 8-10 other people back in June of 2011 for silly reasons, which all boiled down to them not being able to pay us. I took them to court and won, but there is no real way to make them pay. They are now with some "reorganization group" that is supposed to clean up their mess of bills owed, including my paycheck and others. If we want our full amount, it will be about 2 years before they even START to pay. It is ridiculous. I tried to call today because they still have not even sent out W2's. I don't expect them to. This company is doing a disservice to the community they serve and to the employees they hire. They have been on the news for this issue of not paying employees as well as for committing medicaid fraud. I am all for companies that do good for people, but The Bridges Center is NOT one of them.
4340 days ago by Chappmo
I received a call from the Department of Wage and Hour division this
morning and they are saying that The Bridges Center- Elana Winfrey is now in
collections with the Department of Labor. They scheduled to pay a large amount of people and failed to hold on to their signed agreement so the Department of Labor has now put their account into collection .. The contact is Elisa Black case manager case number 1580430 and her contact number is 678-237-0493 or you can reach Regina at 678-237-0545. Please contact Elisa to verify that you are on the case with the Department of Labor Wage and Hour division. It has been a hard road but justice will be made. I wish theat we had more help with pursuing The Bridges Center and this may be a short ride than it should be but giving up is not in my dictionary!!!

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