A nursing home owner in the Bronx was arrested for failing to provide worker’s compensation for her employees. According to the August 7 issue of Crain’s New York Business, Helen Sieger was the first person in the state to be charged under the law, which makes it a felony for employers to fail to have workers’ compensation coverage for their employees.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sieger failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance for hundreds of workers for more than a year, from late May 2007 to the end of this June. She was arrested on Wednesday.
Sieger is the owner and chief executive of the Kingsbridge Heights Care and Rehabilitation Center, whose workers have been on strike for six months, ever since Sieger stopped paying into their health care fund.
Elise Nakhnikian, Senior Online Editor
enakhnikian@phinational.org
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