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February 27, 2024

Virginia Home Care Agency Pays $876,000 in Back Wages and Penalties to Workers Unlawfully Denied Overtime

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.
Home » News » Virginia Home Care Agency Pays $876,000 in Back Wages and Penalties to Workers Unlawfully Denied Overtime

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.

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When McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP decides to take your case, it is because we believe there is an unacceptable workplace violation that has negatively impacted you or resulted in your employer paying less than what the law requires and which we have a reasonable chance of remedying. We recognize that meritorious claims should not go unremedied because of the level of a person’s resources.

To ensure accessible and available legal representation for all our clients, MSE handles cases through different forms of fee arrangements, including contingency fees, hourly fees and fixed fees.

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