News Report | October 29, 2017
Class-Action Complaint Over California Unpaid Home Care Worker Overtime Moves Forward
On September 28, 2017, a California court ruled that a class-action complaint about unpaid overtime filed by home care workers employed by Los Angeles County could move forward; the workers provided services for the state’s Medicaid In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. The complaint was filed on June 7, 2017, by an employee of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS). The plaintiff alleged that the state and the county violated federal overtime law by failing to pay overtime to home care workers delivering IHSS. Rather than . . .