March 10, 2021
An individual filed a class-action complaint on Tuesday against his former employer, Surgical Care Affiliates LLC (SCA), and affiliated entities, alleging Sherman Act and Clayton Act violations through lowering employee wages in an anticompetitive conspiracy among other companies in the market. The Northern District of Illinois lawsuit came on the heels of a Jan. 5 Department of Justice criminal indictment against SCA, claiming the company and others were colluding to control the labor market.
SCA owns and operates about 230 outpatient care facilities across the country, serving around 1 million patients every year, with approximately 10,000 employees, according to the complaint. Plaintiff Allen Spradling was an employee of SCA from Sept. 22, 2008, until April 26, 2013, as a manager of the program management office and then as director of information technology.