NYT Highlights the Plight of Home Health Aides

The New York Times recently ran an article about the death a home care worker from Covid, spotlighting the difficult awful conditions those workers must endure every day for very little pay.  The employer the Times discussed, Americare, is one of the largest employers of home care workers, but their practices are far from unique.  The use of 24-hour shifts for  home care workers is widespread in the industry, and as alluded to by the Times, it is a fiction that any home care worker caring for a patient with dementia 24 hours a day will ever get the rest and meal breaks that the law requires. 

Menken Simpson & Rozger is proud to represent a group of home attendants who worked for Americare and did not receive the pay to which they were entitled. This class action lawsuit currently pending Kings County Supreme Court and is being litigated by Jason Rozger.