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In reply to the discussion: Castro Valley: Janitor saw elderly become weak [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)I also suspect the LPNs left months ago do to problems with pay, Thus the home was staffed with nothing by CNA (Certified nurses aides) who quit at the beginning of the month and the home has been hiring people off the street for at least the last couple of months to minimize costs. When the LPNs left the CNA were still working. When the CNAs quit, the new hires were present to take care of the patients. The new workers had been hired at minimum wage without any training, and they were the only people left when this janitor and cook were hired.
Worse, I suspect none of these workers were paid all month. The employer hired replacement workers when old workers walked off the job do to lack of pay. i.e. people stayed on the promise of pay, by the pay was never paid. Thus this janitor was hired to replace a janitor who quit do to NOT being paid. It takes months to revoke a license and if the owner never intended to fix the problems, they could run such a shell game (for that is what is was) till the license was revoked. i.e. NOT pay anyone. Any RN would have quit months ago (if they ever hired one, I suspect they did not for they KNOW they have to be paid), any LPN would have quit months ago, the CNAs after missing two to three pays. After a while the word gets around about a bad employer among licensed professionals and they do not even apply for employment is such places.
Lower income people would stay longer for their have even fewer options. Worse, not being of the same group as even the CNAs, they would NOT have heard this was an employee who does not pay. If what happened to this Janitor is typical, hired and then never paid, would explain why no one was left except the cook and Janitors who were also the last hired. Even one else left for they had NOT been paid for even people who are the most desperate for work, want to be paid.
Thus any RN, LPN or even CNA would have complained to their licensing board long before now AND spread the word NOT to even think of working for this employer. I suspect the owner had no RNs, no LPNs and no CNAs on his staff for at least the last month. The owner took the money and ran, something no one planned for.