Filipino Nurses Win $1.56 Million in Trafficking Victims Case

A nursing agency and recruiter that brought Filipino nurses to the U.S. and promised them jobs, but threatened them with large fines if they left those jobs prematurely, will pay $1.56 million to the nurses, plus interest, a New York federal judge said.

The court previously found that the Prompt Nursing Employment Agency LLC, doing business as Sentosa Services, had violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and broken their contract by threatening to seriously harm the nurses financially if they left their jobs early.

Judge Nina Gershon of the Brooklyn-based U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ...