After an arbitrator ruled that 42 home-care staffing agencies must pay $30 million in unpaid wages to 120,000 current and former home health aides, critics called the settlement “a historic low” for the workers.
The workers’ union, Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, filed a grievance on behalf of the home-health workers, who are predominantly women of color, in 2019, claiming that agencies violated state and federal wage laws by failing to pay for interruptions to sleep and meal breaks for employees who worked 24-hour shifts. State law allowed home-care staffing agencies to pay 13 hours for 24-hour shifts, as long as workers got eight hours of sleep and five hours of “uninterrupted sleep.”
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