The duties of a home health care worker are arduous and draining. Most are egregiously underpaid. Home-care staffing agencies are allowed to pay these workers 13 hours for 24-hour shifts. They are allowed varying amounts of hours for sleep and meal breaks. In 2019 the SEIU filed a grievance saying workers were underpaid during their shifts, and the workers were awarded $30 million in back pay. Hundreds of workers had also filed wage theft complaints with the Department of Labor, yet the DOL terminated the investigations. Now, as a result of a class-action lawsuit, and the following ruling of the state Supreme Court judge in favor of the plaintiffs, elected officials are demanding the investigations be reopened.
Read the full story by Crystal Lewis for The Chief Leader, published here: https://thechiefleader.com/stories/advocates-reopen-home-health-aides-wage-theft-cases,53507?cb=1733195741
