Home Health & Hospice Week

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Agency, Owner In The Big Easy Must Pay Workers $630K In Back Pay, Undergo Audits

A New Orleans-area home care agency and its owner must pay up in a wage case. Parishes Supportive Living Inc. and owner Belinda Vining-Trepagnier have been ordered to pay 80 workers a total of $630,000 in back wages and damages after the employer misclassified them as independent contractors, the Department of Labor says in a release. Parishes “willfully failed to [...]
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