July 22, 2024
A post-acute healthcare network will shell out about $1 million to end a suit that claimed it cheated direct support personnel workers out of overtime after misclassifying them as independent contractors, after a New Mexico federal judge approved the deal Monday.
September 26, 2023
Home health aides urged a New Mexico federal judge to toss their employer's request for the court to revisit its denial of a protective order that would prevent the aides from deposing a human resources worker, arguing the health facility should be sanctioned for stalling them.
May 01, 2023
Home health care workers may pursue claims that they were denied adequate overtime pay as a collective but not as a class, as a New Mexico federal judge ruled that testimony that employees were similarly denied overtime pay were too vague to support class treatment.