Your Comfort Zone Inc., president allegedly sought ‘kickbacks’, hindered investigation

CONCORD, NH – The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has entered a consent preliminary injunction to prevent a West Lebanon home healthcare business and its president from coercing employees to “kick back” wages recovered for them by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The court also ordered them to stop interfering with a current investigation.

This action is the latest involving Your Comfort Zone Inc. and Rosalind Godfrey. After two federal investigations in 2018 found they failed to pay 25 workers overtime wages when required, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the company and its president agreed to pay $100,055 in back wages to the affected workers. On Oct. 14, 2022, the department’s Office of the Solicitor filed a complaint in federal court, alleging the employer later coerced some employees into returning the back wages the investigations recovered.

The department also alleges that the company and Godfrey interfered with a current investigation of their pay practices by asking employees about their contact with investigators, telling at least one employee they did not need to speak with investigators, altering at least one timesheet and submitting that false information to investigators.

“Employers who demand that their employees return wages recovered for them by the U.S. Department of Labor or who try to obstruct and interfere...

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