Nursing Home Care Management, operating as Prestige Home Care Agency, and its owner, Alexander Dorfman, were ordered to pay $3,538,360 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to affected employees, according to a June 2 Labor Department news release.
The court found that Prestige Home Care Agency willfully:
- Failed to pay the required overtime rate for hours over 40 in a workweek by not paying home health aides for time spent traveling between clients’ homes in a given workday.
- Paid certain employees straight-time hourly rates for all hours worked, including for hours over 40 in a workweek.
- Segregated types of work performed by certain employees during a workweek rather than combining all hours worked when computing overtime wages.
- Failed to keep accurate time and payroll records.
Prestige Home Care Agency provides services including skilled and home healthcare, veterans assistance, adult home and personal care and intellectual disability services.
