Wittels McInturff Palikovic has filed a groundbreaking wage and hour class action seeking overtime wages for more than 2,000 home health care workers.
This class action alleges that MZL—a company that places home health aides and other health care workers with patients in need of in-home care—has been illegally withholding wages from over 2,000 workers throughout New York for several years.
On a daily basis home care workers perform essential services such as assisting with transportation, preparing meals, house cleaning, personal hygiene, and other health and wellness related activities. Despite their increasingly vital role, however, home care workers are consistently some of the lowest paid service industry employees, with incomes routinely averaging less than $20,000 a year. Paradoxically, many home care workers find themselves unable to care for their own families due to their employers’ frequent failure to comply with state and federal labor laws.
At MZL, workers regularly put in very long hours and are thus well-deserving of overtime pay. Yet their lawfully mandated wages never materialized. By denying its employees their overtime wages, MZL has considerably boosted its bottom line. In pursuing justice for MZL’s home care workers, our goal is to address the imbalance of power between MZL and the workers at the heart of its success.
The lawsuit seeks to recover overtime pay, liquidated damages, and interest for all home health care workers employed by MZL. For more information please contact us.