The Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health, which abruptly closed and laid off its workforce two years ago, has settled with former employees who said the shuttered West Palm Beach mental health hospital violated federal labor law, The Palm Beach Post reports.
The Golden Center will pay $400,000 to be distributed to the more than 300 employees who lost their jobs, as well as their attorneys, according to a settlement agreement.
The court-approved settlement was reportedly the maximum possible amount the former employees could recover given the center’s financial position.
The property itself was sold for $11 million a year ago. Read more.
