Everest Home Care LLC paid workers a straight-time hourly rate instead of one-and-one-half their required rate for hours over 40 in a workweek.
Everest also failed to include recruitment commissions and hourly coronavirus hazard pay in employees' required rates of pay when calculating overtime.
All these actions violate the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Everest Home Care LLC, a Pittsburgh-based home care agency, and owner Bhuwan Acharya must pay 218 employees more than $1.4 million in back wages and damages for not paying overtime wages. The company then manipulated records to hide the wage theft, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division in Pittsburgh investigated and determined the employer paid workers a straight-time hourly rate instead of one-and-one-half their required rate for hours over 40 in a workweek, according to a department press release.
The investigation also revealed that Everest Home Care, which provides personal assistance, home- and community-based services, and long-term living assistance, attempted to mask the wage discrepancy by representing straight-time pay as overtime when overtime wages were required. Everest also failed to include recruitment commissions and hourly coronavirus hazard pay in employees’ required rates of pay when calculating overtime.
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