Orange County residential care homes will pay $1.1 million in back wages and penalties to 66 workers in federal lawsuit settlement, as experts cite widespread abuses in the industry
. Since January 2016, U.S. labor officials have assessed $3 million in back wages owed to more than 1,500 California workers in the residential-care home industry.California officials have also been aggressive. Since 2014, the Labor Commissioner’s Office has issued citations totaling more than $12.8 million to residential-care facilities. In one case last year, a San Fernando Valley chain of six Alzheimer’s and dementia facilities,, was assessed $7.
The conditions in the federal case against the Orange County homes “are not uncommon,” said California Labor Secretary Julie Su, citing “round-the-clock shifts with pay set at flat rates that do not account for actual hours worked, resulting in egregious violations of minimum wage, overtime and meal and rest break standards.
At the Ortiz facilities, workers tended to patients with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy. They administered medication, changed diapers, fed them and brushed their teeth at “all hours of the day and night,” according to court documents. The documents alleged workers were paid a flat rate of $750 a week from 2016 to 2019.
Ortiz said the $750 was “net pay,” her employees may have worked just six to eight hours of unpaid overtime weekly, “and we have corrected everything.” She said she did not ask workers to file false statements, but only to meet with her attorney. She did not threaten to evict them, she said, but suggested that they find their own places to live.
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