Last week, Total Health Home Care was forced to settle a lawsuit for failure to pay home caregivers for time spent traveling between their clients. Total will be required to pay $2.2 million dollars in back wages covering approximately 3,000 workers. Several home caregivers and seniors held a press conference on Wednesday, 11/21, to announce the settlement and to call for greater accountability for law breaking home care agencies.

Three thousand workers were eligible to participate in the lawsuit, based on their having worked for Total sometime in the prior three years. (The agency's turnover rate is in the neighborhood of 300% annually.) For more information on the campaign to win justice for Philadelphia's home care workers, or to contact the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (which contracts with Total to provide home care to our seniors), visit homecarealert.org.