NY-AG v. Albany Med Health System

Albany Med Health System allegedly unlawfully included a “repayment fee” provision in their employment contracts for nurses recruited from foreign nations. According to NY-AG, Albany Med was found to have violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act § 1589 through its provision, which constitutes a threat of sufficiently serious legal and financial harm “to compel a reasonable person of the same background and in the same circumstances to perform or to continue performing labor or services in order to avoid incurring that harm.

Summary generated from official New York Attorney General press release