Patrick Miller-Bartley
Tue, 02/27/2024
108 Workers for a Virginia Home Care Agency recovered nearly a million dollars from their employer recently, as a result of the Agency’s failure to pay them for overtime that they had worked. The home care industry is rife with abuse, with employers failing to properly calculate their workers’ overtime hours, or to properly credit them for having performed certain hours of work, among other violations.
Homecare workers are entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and their employers must pay them at one and one-half times their regular pay rate for any hours they work over 40 in a week. If you are a home care worker and unsure if you are being paid correctly, do not hesitate to review your rights, or to contact one of McGillivary Steele Elkin’s expert labor attorneys in order to learn more about your options.
