Bayada Home Health Care settled nurses’ wages class action lawsuit for $13.5 million

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Wage issue involves Bayada's private duty nurses.

Bayada Home Health Care settled nurses' wages class action lawsuit for $13.5 million

The settlement, if approved by a judge, will cover nearly 11,000 Bayada nurses in Pennsylvania.

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Bayada Home Health Care Inc., one of the nation's largest home care providers, agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit in Philadelphia alleging the company failed to pay nurses for time spent updating the incoming nurse or caregiver on a patient's condition and for time spent in mandatory training sessions....

...An expert report included in the nurses' pretrial memorandum estimated that Bayada underpaid nearly 11,000 Pennsylvania nurses by $30.8 million since August 2013.

 

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