Home Care Agency Owes $414k In Back Pay, Damages To 62 Workers Denied Overtime

The U.S. Department of Labor reported it has obtained a consent judgment against a location healthcare agency and its owner, Teajan Kamara, who had deliberately grounded to salary labor their legally earned overtime wages.

Following a filing by nan section successful national territory tribunal successful Philadelphia, nan judgement confirms nan findings of nan department’s Wage and Hour Division’s investigation that wished QualiT Healthcare LLC owed nan affected workers $414,351 successful backmost wages and liquidated damages for violating overtime provisions of nan Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA).

The tribunal besides ordered nan agency and Kamara to salary a $5,649 civilian money punishment for nan willful quality of nan violations.

Before nan consent judgment, QualiT Healthcare had paid $198,591 successful backmost wages and $9,341 successful liquidated damages to nan workers. The employer must now salary nan remaining equilibrium of $212,067 and nan civilian penalties to nan department.

“The judgement we obtained will put important amounts of money backmost successful nan pockets of hard-working attraction workers,” said Regional Solicitor Samantha Thomas successful Philadelphia.

The FLSA requires that astir labor successful nan U.S. beryllium paid astatine slightest nan federal minimum wage of $7.25 for each hours worked and overtime pay astatine not little than clip and one-half their regular complaint of pay for each hours worked complete 40 successful a workweek.