The Department of Labor (DOL) promulgated a rule that brings home care workers, employed by third parties, within the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). As a result, those home care workers employed by an entity other than the individual, or the family of the individual for whom they are caring, will be
Home Care
Many Home Companionship Workers No Longer Exempt
By Bill Pokorny on
Posted in DOL News, Exemptions
Agencies and other third-party employers of live-in household employees and home companionship providers, take note: the long-delayed regulations reclassifying many of these workers as non-exempt employees entitled to minimum wage and overtime under the FLSA are now in effect.
Since 1974, the FLSA has included an exemption for certain categories of domestic service workers, including…