Home Health & Hospice Week

A California home care providers is shelling out close to six figures to settle labor law charges.

Long Beach-based Cambrian Homecare has agreed to pay nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it failed to file pay and transparency reports mandated by the state, the California Civil Rights Department says in a release. State law requires private employers with 100 or more employees to submit information on the number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex in certain job categories and by category of rate of pay to CRD on an annual basis, the department explains.

The requirement aims to combat discrimination and gender or racial wage gaps, notes the Long Beach Business Journal.

Cambrian, which employs more than 2,000 workers, will pay $70,000 in penalties and $24,778 to cover costs and fees associated with the litigation, the state says.