Labor Dept.: Arizona School District Pays Back Wages After Denying Paid Sick Leave to Worker Caring for Children at Home
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020
SOMERTON, Arizona, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release:
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has led the Somerton School District to pay $1,000 in back wages to an employee who needed to spend five weeks at home caring for her children whose school closed due to the coronavirus.
Managers at the Somerton School District #11 stated that while they were unfamiliar with the Emergency Paid Sick L . . .
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has led the Somerton School District to pay $1,000 in back wages to an employee who needed to spend five weeks at home caring for her children whose school closed due to the coronavirus.
Managers at the Somerton School District #11 stated that while they were unfamiliar with the Emergency Paid Sick L . . .