An ongoing compliance initiative by the US Department of Labor found that four Sacramento-area home care providers failed to pay employees overtime as required despite some working 24-hour shifts caring for those in need. Investigators from the department’s Wage and Hour Division determined the home care employers shortchanged their employees and deprived them of their rightfully earned wages, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In total, the division recovered $500,854 in back wages and liquidated damages for 48 workers and assessed $26,469 in penalties.
