Even though the workers often work 60, 70, even 80 hours in a week, they said, overtime is hardly ever paid.
More than 100 home health aides demonstrated yesterday at the offices of Premier Home Health Care to protest that the company had not signed a contract with them even though the workers voted 18 months ago to join the giant health care union 1199/S.E.I.U.
Even though the workers were paid at a fixed rate per piece of work performed and partly in cash, they were told to answer that they were always paid by the hour and through direct deposit.
The court found that Oregon could deny the benefits — even though the workers said their use of peyote was part of a religious ritual — under the general principle that Oregon's ban on peyote was a "valid and neutral law of general applicability".
The main plot development at this stage is the secret rebuilding of an abandoned mansion on Arcadia's sprawling upstate New York acreage, a move planned and led by Abe even though the workers aren't supposed to have any leader other than Handy.
One of the accounts in the book Utah Ghost Rails states the railroad fired the lead surveyor, even though the workers had graded a path past the San Rafael Reef.
Even though the workers were near retirement, Primerica representatives encouraged them to ditch their government pension plans for much riskier government 401k accounts, which do not guarantee a minimum monthly payout in retirement.
That success was achieved even though the health workers generally had only 10th-grade educations and one extra week of training for the project.
The study revealed that even though the health workers are generally responsive to the needs of their clients, the services they provide are often not timely.
Many reported being threatened, punished, humiliated or treated angrily by staff for not adhering strictly to the implicit rules of the system, even though the health workers were aware of the difficulties patients faced in accessing daily treatment.
