More than 3,000 caregivers at 84 residential nursing care facilities across three Midwestern states must be paid $2,939,576 in back overtime wages by Illinois-based Petersen Health Care Inc. of Peoria, according to the Department of Labor Wednesday.
The management company failed to pay the correct overtime because the employer wrongly assumed the affected workers were not entitled to overtime pay, according to a Wage and Hour Division investigation.
The Labor Department said the company violated wage and hour laws in as many as 30 investigations in the last two decades.
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