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Jeannie Ayer, photographed at her Lyndonville, Vt., home on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, is named in a New Hampshire Labor Department lawsuit against West Lebanon in-home care service provider Your Comfort Zone. Ayer and other employees were not paid for overtime and she says she was required to sign blank time sheets to report her hours. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson » Buy this Image
On a January morning in 2019, after she got off her 24-hour shift as an in-home care assistant for an elderly woman in Pomfret, Jeannie Ayer got a call from owner of the agency she worked for. Her boss asked to meet at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the road from the VA Medical Center in White River Junction.
When Ayer arrived at the doughnut shop, Rosalind Godfrey, owner of West Lebanon in-home care provider Your Comfort Zone, was sitting at a table by the window. Godfrey signaled to Ayer to keep her voice down by putting a finger to her lips in a “shush” gesture, Ayer said recounting the meeting.
Ayer sat at the table and Godfrey asked if she could treat Ayer to a coffee then went to the counter to get it. But Godfrey hadn’t called Ayer for a coffee klatch.
Over the preceding weeks, Ayer said, Godfrey had been repeatedly asking if she had received a check from the U.S. Department of Labor. Godfrey...
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