A recent federal investigation found the operators of two related Garland home care agencies underpaid workers in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. A US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation determined Vital Home Health Care Inc. and Comfort Home Health Care Inc. violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements by failing to pay employees for all the hours they worked and failing to pay overtime as required. The employer also violated FLSA recordkeeping provisions by failing to record all hours employees worked. Employees were paid straight time for all hours of work, even when they worked over 40 hours in a work week, a violation of federal overtime regulations. Several employees were paid for scheduled hours and not actual hours worked, leading to FLSA minimum wage and overtime violations. The investigation led the division to recover $1,218,320 in back wages for 202 workers.
