National Fitness Billing Company (NFFS)… Accused of not paying clubs.

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National Fitness Billing Company (NFFS)… Accused of not paying clubs.National Fitness has been accused recently by gym owners in other parts of the country of withholding gym member dues.A fitness club in Utah closed temporarily after employees accused ownership of not paying them.

The doors to Crossroads Fitness in Sandy, Utah, were locked Tuesday, Salt Lake City TV station KUTV 2 News reported. General manager Isaiah Alexander Cummings told the station the club closed in response to a text message from one of the club’s co-owners saying there would be no payroll and employees would not get paid. Paychecks have been late or have not come at all for several weeks, he said.

“We, as the employees, decided that we couldn’t keep being pushed around,” Alexander Cummings told KUTV.

South Florida Sports Management owns the Sandy Crossroads Fitness and the West Jordan Crossroads Fitness, which did not close this week but reportedly has not been cleaned because the club’s cleaning company has not been paid.

The closed Crossroads Fitness reopened Wednesday after one of the co-owners rushed to the club and paid some of the employees in cash out of his own pocket, the TV station reported. Co-owner Alex Valladares told KUTV the clubs were in debt when South Florida Sports Management bought them in August and have continued to lose money.

“We are trying to work some of the issues out that we have right now,” he said. “We’re doing the best that we can to work with the landlord, to work with the power company, gas and any other liabilities that the gyms currently have. On behalf of myself and South Florida Sports Management, we sincerely apologize for the delay.”

The notice on the door to the closed gym specifically blamed billing management company National Fitness, Layton, Utah, for not paying the employees, KUTV reported. National Fitness has been accused recently by gym owners in other parts of the country of withholding gym member dues. Valladares told KUTV that National Fitness is not to blame for the Crossroads Fitness employees not getting paid.