July 22, 2024
More than a dozen bankrupt nursing homes will have to pay nearly $36 million in a U.S. Department of Labor's suit claiming workers weren't paid full wages after creating "an adversarial" payroll structure, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
May 23, 2024
Jackson Lewis PC attorneys were unsure if they were able to keep representing more than a dozen Pennsylvania nursing homes as an unpaid-wage case approaches a critical deadline, telling a federal court during a conference Thursday that the Bankruptcy Code suspended their service to a group of defendants who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier in May.
October 05, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor won't be able to halt planned sales of health care facilities because the agency didn't show that the sales will impact its damages recovery in a wage suit, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.
September 15, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday again rejected a nursing home company's request to delay an upcoming civil trial over unpaid wages because of a criminal trial against some of its employees, which is scheduled for November.
August 31, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to immediately halt the planned sales of health care facilities that the U.S. Department of Labor says are improper bids to dump assets and foreclose any attempts to collect on a judgment in an unpaid wage suit.
February 01, 2023
The operators of several nursing and rehabilitation facilities were within their rights to scrap their tentative $15 million offer to settle a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they underpaid workers, a Pennsylvania federal judge held Wednesday.
June 08, 2021
A Pennsylvania nursing home company can't pause state wage law class claims by workers while a separate suit by the U.S. Department of Labor containing federal wage law claims against the company moves forward without summary judgment, a federal judge ruled.
May 27, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor's intervention in a private suit in which nursing facility aides reached a tentative $1.75 million unpaid wages settlement is an unusual move by an agency that usually lets plaintiffs lawyers handle their own cases, wage and hour attorneys say.