Home Health & Hospice Week
Veteran Nonprofit Hospice Faces Class Action Wage Suit
A California nonprofit hospice is facing a class action lawsuit over wages. Former employee Tyeisha Travis has accused Community Hospice Inc. in Modesto of a number of violations, including requiring staff to work while clocked out on meal breaks; rounding down hours worked; failing to figure incentive pay into overtime and sick pay rate calculations; depriving workers of break times; and requiring staff to use their personal cell phones for work duties. “Employees routinely earned non-discretionary incentive wages which increased their regular rate of pay,” maintains Travis’ law firm, Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw, in a release about the suit. Travis also accuses CHI of “numerous instances of racial discrimination,” according to the complaint at https:// bamlawca.app.box.com/s/7wkhfs6mxqlmv8o2m6gupm13v 7cedoum. The unpaid amounts for current and former employees could be up to $5 million, the suit says. CHI formed in 1979, it says on its website. “We work diligently to ensure legal, ethical, and safe practices for all our employees,” the hospice says in a release about the lawsuit, according to the Modesto Bee newspaper. The lawsuit is set for a case management conference in August, the Bee says.
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Veteran Nonprofit Hospice Faces Class Action Wage Suit
A California nonprofit hospice is facing a class action lawsuit over wages. Former employee Tyeisha [...]
