Three California in-home caregivers filed a proposed class action on June 18, alleging Kindred Healthcare, Inc., failed to pay minimum wage and overtime to workers tending to the elderly and disabled, and denied the caregivers time for meals or rest.

One of the nation’s largest employers of workers who provide supervision, companionship and non-medical care to the elderly, disabled and patients recovering at home from surgery, the company and its affiliates also skirt California laws by shortchanging the caregivers by not paying them for all their time on the job, according to the complaint filed in California Superior Court for the County of Alameda.

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