Indiana Home Healthcare Provider Ordered to Pay $432K in Back Wages, Damages to 171 Caregivers
An Indianapolis employer assigned home healthcare workers to shifts at two related companies but failed to combine the hours, denying them earned overtime pay when they worked more than 40…
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US DOL Investigation of Caregiving Provider Operator Reveals Systemic Wage Violations in 3 States
What started as an investigation of a single Bowling Green-based caregiving provider became a sweeping review of six other franchise locations across three states when investigators uncovered systemic violations by…
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Healthcare Provider to Pay $75K to Nurse in ‘Scrub Skirt’ Religious Discrimination Case
Tennessee-based Wellpath, LLC, a provider of health services in correctional facilities, will pay $75,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a religious discrimination suit brought by the US Equal…
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Federal Court Orders Home Care Agency to Pay More than $2.8M in Back Wages; $250K in Civil Penalties
A federal court in Pennsylvania has ordered an Ardmore employer who denied more than $1.4 million in wages to hundreds of home care workers in the Philadelphia area to pay…
Read More »Court Orders Staffing Agency to Pay More Than $7.2M in Back Wages, Damages to 1,105 Aides, Nurses
A federal court in Virginia has entered a judgment ordering a Norfolk-based medical staffing agency, which intentionally violated federal laws and denied 1,105 certified nursing aides, licensed practical nurses and…
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US DOL Recovers Nearly $25K in Back Wages, Damages for 26 Workers at Pittsburgh Home Health Service Company
Findings: The division’s investigation found that Three Rivers Home Care failed to pay an overtime premium on sign-on bonuses for 26 home health aides. The bonuses were contingent upon each…
Read More »WV Nursing Care Facility Pays $270K in Back Wages, Damages to 166 Workers Following US DOL Investigation
A federal investigation recovered $270,984 in back wages and liquidated damages for 166 workers of a Princeton skilled nursing care facility. The employer failed to pay proper overtime as required…
Read More »Charter Senior Living to Pay $31,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Charter Senior Living, LLC, a family-owned business based in Naperville, Illinois that operates senior living communities primarily in the Midwest and South, will pay $31,750 and provide other relief to…
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Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Private Employer Vaccine Mandate but Lets Healthcare Rule Take Effect
The Supreme Court delivered a mixed ruling on the Biden Administration’s workplace Covid-19 vaccination requirements Thursday, reinstating a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers but temporarily blocking the vaccine-or-test rule for…
Read More »US DOL Investigation Leads Former Owner to Repay Unpaid Health Plan Claims of Uninsured Employees
For months, 11 employees at a Somerset home healthcare agency faced costly medical bills, unaware their employer had failed to remit contributions withheld from their wages to their healthcare plans,…
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