I was currently an RN Case Manager at a home care agency. This agency had been struggling to pay the nurses for quite sometime. I held on thinking they were going to make it through whatever financial issues they were having. Eventually, instead of a few days late, my paycheck was two weeks late... I was becoming behind on bills and it was causing issues at home. I gave my notice on a Thursday afternoon verbally. The next day I handed in a written notice. I had given them 30 days, however in the notice I put a stipulation stating if pay was ever more than 7 days late I would terminate my employment immediately.
A week later there I was having to ask Friday afternoon where my pay was. There was no pay and they could not tell me when I would ever get the paycheck that was already 7 days late. I told them that day would be my last day. I worked the rest of the day, typed up a list of patients, issues, and frequencies then gave it to the supervisor/DON.
A week later I still had no pay and now they were two entire paychecks behind. They told me if I try to do anything like reporting them they would pay my remainder owed out at minimum wage and they would get me for patient abandonment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I didn't abandon my patients. My question is how far would this go in court and has anyone ever dealt with this before???
