Home Health & Hospice Week
Virginia Agency Shells Out $100K In Back Wages
A Virginia home health agency has paid nearly $100,000 in back pay to aides after a Department of Labor investigation. Angel Wings Home Health Inc. in Danville violated the overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a DOL release. Angel Wings failed to pay 53 personal care aides and nursing assistants time-and-a-half when they worked over 40 hours in a workweek, as the FLSA requires, says the DOL Wage and Hour Division. The agency also failed to maintain accurate records of total weekly hours worked, as required by federal law. “Overtime and other wage violations are all too common among home healthcare workers,” WHD District Director Roberto Melendez says in the release. “We will hold employers accountable when they fail to uphold their legal obligations.”
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Virginia Agency Shells Out $100K In Back Wages
A Virginia home health agency has paid nearly $100,000 in back pay to aides after [...]
