Wage Theft in Health Care: Protecting Caregivers From Unpaid Work & Overtime Violations

Health care workers across the United States play a critical role in keeping individuals, families, and communities safe and healthy. Nurses, home health aides, caregivers, medical assistants, and support staff work long hours, often under stressful and demanding conditions. Yet many of these workers are not paid properly for the time they put in. When an employer fails to pay a health care worker for all hours worked, overtime, or minimum wage, it is called wage theft. Wage theft is illegal under U.S. federal and state law. Unfortunately, it is far too common in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities,...