Lawyers Investigate Claims of Labor Law Violations by Home Helpers In-Home Care

Lawyers are currently investigating employee claims of labor law violations by Home Helpers In-Home Care company.

Plaintiffs Roseann G. and Sherri H. claim that they and many other employees were subjected to numerous labor law violations by their employer, Home Helpers, an in-home care company. Allegedly, the company forced employees to work longer-than-legal shifts without sufficient time allotted for sleeping, paid below minimum wage, and did not pay employees overtime.

In the Home Helpers in-home care class action lawsuit, Roseann and Sherri are seeking to recover unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime for all hours worked over 40 weekly hours and statutory damages including liquidated damages from Home Helpers as compensation for the company’s alleged misconduct. They seek this compensation for themselves and for all other similarly affected employees.

The Home Helpers in-home care implicates Home Helpers, its associated companies, Glenkat Inc, its franchise as well as Kathleen and Glen Holden, the co-owners of Glenkat. Allegedly, all of these parties contributed to determining, approving of, condoning, or otherwise permitting the mistreatment of Home Helpers employees. Roseann and Sherri worked for Glenkat, the franchise of Home Helpers, in North Carolina. 

Allegedly, Home Helpers encourages franchisees to “keep costs low” and “maximize profits,” while growing and expanding as much as possible. Roseann and Sherri claim that Home Helpers had a corporate-wide policy that encouraged franchisees to underpay employees, require them to work longer hours than permissible, and not pay overtime in the interest of maximizing profits.

Roseann and Sherri claim that although Home Helpers required franchisees to adhere to federal, state, and local law, they did not adhere to this policy in practice. Allegedly, Home Helpers knew that Glenkat violated labor law, and “failed to take action to ensure compliance, because [Home Helpers] would have lost the royalties directly tied to gross profits.”

To support their claim that Home Helpers knew that Glenkat was violating labor standards in its policies and yet took no action, the two employees point to the fact that Home Helpers faced legal allegations of comparable conduct in Illinois. The employees claim that Home Helpers’ alleged history of turning a blind eye to employee mistreatment shows that the company could very well be doing the same in the case of the Glenkat franchisee.

Roseann and Sherri claim that Glenkat and Home Helpers violated both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and North Carolina’s state labor law, the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act. They claim that many times, employees were required to stay with a client for 24-hour shifts, often for consecutive days. Allegedly, employees were not allowed to take breaks or eat meals unless they were working overnight shifts.

Additionally, they claim that employees were not allowed to have uninterrupted sleep, which is required by law, and instead, were required to continually monitor and care for clients at all points during their shift. When employees were allowed to sleep, they were allegedly not paid for that time, and when they worked over 40 hours in a work week, were not paid for overtime.

The Home Helpers Wage and Hour Lawsuit is Case No. 3:17-cv-00738-FDW-DSC, in the U.S. District Court for the U.S. District Court of the Western District Court of North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

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