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 U.S. Department of Labor investigators with time and pay records, despite being in contempt of court since Sept. 27, 2023, and assessed $250 for each day she refused to comply. On Nov. 28, 2023, US District Judge Matthew F. Leitman of the Eastern District of Michigan directed the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest Rosie Guthrie, owner of Genesis Homecare Services, and that she be held until the requested records are provided. The action is the latest step in litigation filed by the department in federal court in November 2022 after Guthrie refused to comply repeatedly with the department’s Wage and Hour Division requests for documents needed for an investigation opened in 2022. The court ordered Guthrie and Genesis Homecare Services to comply with the department’s administrative subpoena on March 15, 2023.
