A Garden Grove company that previously was ordered to pay more than $1 million to employees in a federal wage theft probe has again been ordered to pay back its staff hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The order filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California also permanently prohibits the care provider from committing future labor violations at its 12 locations in Orange and Riverside counties. An investigation from 2013 through 2016 found Neldy’s owed $1,069,730 in back wages and penalties to 58 workers after violating minimum wage and overtime laws in the Fair Labor Standards Act.The Labor Department in a statement said these types of wage violations in the healthcare industry are “common.”