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Attention Home Health Care Agencies: Your Domestic Caretakers May Soon Be Accorded Wage and Hour Protections of the FLSA

Employment Law Newsletter Although many domestic workers are covered by the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime requirements, there presently exists an exemption from these requirements for home health care workers providing “companionship services for individuals who are unable to care for themselves.” In 2007, the United…