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Advocates: Reopen home health aides' wage theft cases

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 12/6/24

Following a state Supreme Court judge’s ruling that the state Department of Labor should not have closed hundreds of home health workers’ wage theft cases, elected officials are demanding that the investigations be reopened.

State law allows home-care staffing agencies to pay 13 hours for 24-hour shifts, as long as workers get eight hours of sleep, five hours of “uninterrupted sleep,” and three hours for meal breaks. 

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