About a dozen employees of the Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services won wage theft suits against their current or former employer months after the healthcare company’s financial woes came to light.
Cleveland judges sided with those who sued, agreeing NEON owed 11 workers payments from $1,400 to a bit over $5,000, Signal Cleveland reported. Workers originally claimed in February that they were owed back pay stretching to December.
Andy Schumann, an activist at the Northeast Ohio Worker Center who helped NEON workers file the complaints in small claims, questioned the nature of wage theft cases just as he commended the court system…