The US Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order that recovers $19,934 in back wages and damages from an Ohio home healthcare and adult daycare service provider who denied seven employees overtime wages and failed to properly pay in-home workers when clients’ needs disrupted their sleep time. The action follows an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that found Ephiphany Home Care @ Best LLC in Springdale, and its owner, ShaRhonda Moore failed to combine hours when some employees worked in several locations — including client’s private homes, the company’s adult day program or at its main office — in the same workweek. The division also learned the employer incorrectly used an overtime exemption for a manager and failed to pay them properly for hours over 40 in a workweek. On March 9, 2023, the court held Ephiphany Home Care and Moore liable for $9,967 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages for the affected employees. In its order, the court affirmed the division’s finding that Moore did not track an employee’s hours worked accurately, including sleep time interruptions.
