# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DePvha1D7JP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71376784-newsday-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/dfd5a7dbf6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T20:01:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

Patrick Atta didn’t know he was owed tens of thousands of dollars for his time as a live-in home health aide in Suffolk County, caring for a man with Parkinson’s disease, until years after he’d left the job.

The 41-year-old Ghana native said he’d forgo breakfast or wake in the middle of the night to tend to his client, who suffered from hallucinations, working roughly 91 hours a week without overtime.

He earned about $1,600 each week but is now expected to receive $35,000 in back pay and nearly $38,000 more in damages after the company and federal labor investigators recently reached a $6.4 million settlement for wage theft from nearly 500 aides.

“I thought maybe if I complained a lot they were going to fire me,” Atta said. “I was afraid back then.”

Link in bio for more on how the home healthcare sector withheld more wages from employees than any other industry on Long Island. 
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#longisland #longislandny #suffolkcounty #wagetheft #healthaide

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