Federal Court Orders Business Owner Imprisoned Until She Complies with DOL Subpoena
A federal court has ordered the owner of a Michigan senior home care services company be imprisoned if she continues to ignore a March 2023 federal court order to provide…
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$139K for 29 Employees Wrongly Exempted from Overtime by Home Healthcare Employer
A US Department of Labor investigation has recovered $139,975 in back wages from a Spartanburg home healthcare provider that wrongly exempted 29 employees from overtime and failed to pay them…
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EEOC Issues Yearly Financial Report
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) detailed its financial management and provided a high-level overview of key performance results in its Fiscal Year 2023 Agency Financial Report (AFR) released…
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US DOL Recovers $532K in Back Wages for 67 Workers Who Were Misclassified as Contractors
Federal investigators have recovered $532,842 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Montgomery home healthcare business that misclassified 67 employees as independent contractors, and incurred overtime wage violations as…
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Agreement Secured with Healthcare System to Resolve Allegations of Employment Discrimination
The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (NYCHH), which provides healthcare services to more than one million…
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Colorado Home Healthcare Owner Charged with Employment Tax Crimes
A federal grand jury in Denver returned an indictment charging a Colorado woman with willfully failing to account for and pay over employment taxes for several years. According to the…
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DOL Recovers $59K in Back Wages for 64 Home Care Workers, Assesses $7K in Penalties to Employer
Investigators with the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer at its Arrington Assisted Living location—which provides housing and nursing care, housekeeping, and meal preparation services…
Read More »US DOL Offers Webinar to Help Employers Understand Workers’ Rights, Reduce Wage Violations
As part of an effort to address wage-related violations by the Southeast’s care industries’ employers, the US Department of Labor will hold a webinar on workers’ rights and protections for…
Read More »CT Homecare Provider Pays $92K in Back Wages, Liquidated Damages to 107 In-Home Caregivers
After an investigation and litigation by the US Department of Labor, a federal court entered a consent judgment requiring a Waterford-based homecare service business, CareCo Shoreline Inc. — doing business…
Read More »EEOC Announces Opening of 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the opening today of the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection due Dec. 5, 2023. To meet this deadline, the EEOC strongly…
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