Unresolved Home Health Aide Wage Deal Sent for New Look by Panel

A $1.3 million overtime settlement is in doubt after an appellate court ruled Wednesday that it isn’t clear if a home-care agency and its workers actually meant for the unfinished deal to be binding.

The parties signed a memorandum of understanding, but the document “expressly left a number of issues open and unresolved,” the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said. The court sent the case back to the district judge who signed off on the deal at the workers’ request so he can take a closer look at the facts surrounding the settlement process, the unpublished ...