A southern California senior care facility with a history of labor violations has been ordered by a federal court to pay $690,696 to 108 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor recently discovered that the Garden Grove-based company failed to pay workers all of their earned salaries.
Neldy’s R.C. Inc., operating as Neldy’s Adult Residential Care Home, failed to combine all hours worked and hid the illegal practices by paying the affected employees with multiple paychecks, according to a Jan. 10 news release.
“The fact that the operator of Neldy’s Adult Residential Care Home continues to abuse their workers’ rights so blatantly despite their prior violations is truly appalling,” Min Park-Chung, Wage and Hour Division district director in San Diego, said, according to the news release.
Wage and Hour Division investigators discovered the company deducted meal breaks from workers’ wages when their duties required them to work during their breaks, the release reported.
“The court’s action and our investigation send a clear message to unscrupulous care industry employers that we will hold them accountable for their attempts to exploit their workers and deprive them of their hard-earned wages,” Park-Chung said in the release.
The agency’s Regional Solicitor Marc Pilotin in San Francisco said the Labor Department follows all legal avenues to protect workers’ rights when shameless employers abuse them. Stopping wage theft and enforcing the law is a priority, he said, according to the release.
