Two New York home care services companies are in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by home health aides alleging they were cheated out of millions of dollars in wages and benefits.
The lawsuit was filed by three current and former aides employed by Preferred Home Care of N.Y. LLC and Edison Home Health Care, according to documents filed Nov. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
The aides made one of their claims under the New York State Home Care Worker Wage Parity Law, which requires that home care workers working on cases that ...