Nursing home

If you worked for a nursing home, there is a good chance you are owed financial compensation due to a wage violation. Though abusing employees in this manner is certainly sad, the bright side is there are numerous unpaid overtime/wage lawsuits being filed on behalf of nursing home employees. If you are even slightly suspicious you were not properly... compensated for your work in a nursing home, it is time to take legal action with the assistance of a proven employment law attorney. The bottom line is you are owed proper compensation for your labor. With the right legal representative, you will be compensated appropriately. Nursing home employees across the United States have been under-compensated or, in some cases, not compensated at all, for their hard work. The failure to provide overtime pay is one of the more serious wage violations in the nursing home industry. If you have not been paid for all of the hours you have worked, you should be provided with the proper compensation. Do not let an employer avoid payment for work performed before or after your schedule shift, during a meal period or another time designated for breaks. Some nursing home administrators and owners have refused to provide training pay. Employees must be compensated if training is mandatory. In fact, nursing homes are also required to pay for employee uniform maintenance. If the nursing home you worked for mandated that you buy or launder your own uniform without compensation for your costs and the costs drop your wage below the minimum wage, you should be compensated. Though it is hard to believe, some nursing homes have even refused to provide vacation pay to employees. In the state of Illinois, a nursing home that provides paid vacations to employees must provide pay for unused vacation days upon leaving the employer. If these funds were not paid, it is time to take legal action. Furthermore, some nursing homes go to the extent of deducting half an hour of pay for lunch breaks even when employees are forced to work during these ...Read More