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September 18, 2013

U.S. Extends Wage, Overtime Protections to Home Care Workers 
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The Obama administration is extending key government protections on
minimum wage and overtime to the nation's home care workers. The Fair
Labor Standards Act will be amended to cover workers who care for the
elderly and disabled in their homes. The move follows years of
campaigning to undo the loophole known as the "companionship exemption,"
which has denied basic wage and overtime protections to home care
workers by placing them in the same category as baby-sitters. The new
regulation will not take effect until 2015.

 

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