California’s labor commissioner ordered two Long Beach-based home health-care agencies Wednesday to pay more than $1.8 million for misclassifying 66 workers as independent contractors.
Commissioner Lilia García-Brower alleged that Annabelle Ricasata, the owner of Angel Connection Nursing Care and employee of Angel Connection Nursing Services, hired health aides as contractors to avoid paying minimum wages, payroll taxes, and workers’ compensation insurance expenses.
“Caretakers were systematically denied minimum wage, overtime, and other legally required working conditions,” García-Brower said in a statement.
Ricasata is jointly and severally liable with the owners of Angel Connection Nursing Services, Merjilyn Chu and Joseph ...
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