A Lansdowne home health care company is required to pay more than $2.3 million in back wages and damages to workers after failing to provide adequate time-and-a-half overtime pay to 398 employees, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Thursday.
Affectionate Home Health Care, which provides nursing care and household management to Philadelphia and Delaware County residents who need help with daily tasks, willingly shortchanged employees' overtime wages, according to a judgement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Affectionate Home Health Care and its owners, Ashford B. Sonii and Habibatu K. Dumbar, were ordered to pay more than $1.17 million in back wages and an equal amount of money in damages to nearly 400 workers, the judgement said. From Oct. 5, 2018 through at least Sept. 24, 2021, the agency paid workers for straight time or paid an arbitrary overtime rate that is less than the time-and-a-half rate required by law.
Sonii and Dumbar did not separate straight-time hours worked from overtime hours and failed to record the proper rates for overtime work weeks accurately. That, the judgement said, is in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to more than $2.3 million in back pay and damages, the agency is required to pay a $219,099 civil penalty.
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