Home Health: Court OK's Aide's Firing For Having Keys To Client's Home
Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession
October 1998
Quick Summary: A home health agency can prohibit caregivers from accepting keys from clients to clients homes without prior approval from the agency, and can fire an aide for violating this policy as set forth in the agencys employee handbook, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, recently ruled.
Claim of Williams, 675 N.Y.S. 2d 210 (N.Y. App., 1998).