Eleven current and former employees of Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services (NEON) have won wage theft judgments in Cleveland Municipal Court against the nonprofit.
The current and former employees filed suit in small claims court in March to recover back wages and, in some cases, receive the paid time off and/or vacation time that they are owed. All sued to recover over two weeks of back pay NEON has owed them since December, when the nonprofit failed to pay them for the final two weeks of the year.
Magistrate Leslie Wolfe heard their cases in May. Her decisions for each plaintiff, which were approved and confirmed by Judge Jeffrey D. Johnson or Judge Bridget M. O’Brien, were mailed to the current and former employees last week. The judgments range from about $1,400 to just over $5,000…