The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry announced on Wednesday it had recovered $79,000 in unpaid wages from five personal care assistance agencies, which had failed to correctly pay 137 workers. DLI’s Labor Standards unit found the personal care assistance agencies did not correctly pay workers all they were owed. The pay violations include making illegal deductions from employees’ wages; not paying overtime wages; and not paying the temporary pandemic-era wage bump allocated by the state Legislature in 2020.
