Editorial: Migrant shelter workers toiling 12 hours a day, 7 days a week? What’s the deal? – Chicago Tribune*

"To be clear, we don’t have evidence of fraud and there may well be an explanation for these billings we don’t yet know. But we’d still like to invite Favorite Healthcare Staffing to come in and discuss with us the how and why of such a high percentage of their workers logging those kinds of highly unusual hours, which require all kinds of overtime, a portion of which presumably accrues to Favorite Healthcare Staffing, assuming they follow standard agency practice. We’d also like to know how shelter workers doing epic shifts of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, week after week, seemingly as a matter of routine, can be expected to do an adequate job for the migrants in their charge...To say that a full audit is merited understates."
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Old Joe
2 years ago

Hmm, this gives a whole meaning to the phrase “Public Charge.”

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