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HH Workers Win Back Wages
The Department of Labor has recovered $1.5 million in home health worker back wages from a Pennsylvania-based non-medical home care services agency that operates in that state, Missouri, and Illinois. The DOL Wage and Hour Division found Neoly Home Care based in Harrisburg “manipulated pay rates to create the appearance that they paid overtime when employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek. In fact, Neoly paid straight-time wages for all the hours employees worked, regardless of the number of hours worked per week,” WHD says in a release. “Neoly paid a lower hourly rate when employees worked more hours. While appearing to pay time-and-a-half for overtime hours, Neoly actually paid employees approximately the same rate for all hours worked in both overtime and non-overtime workweeks,” WHD explains. The back wages will go to more than 240 workers in Harrisburg, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. “In addition to the back wages recovered, the division assessed $46,376 in civil money penalties for the willful nature of the violations,” WHD adds.
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