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Overtime Rule Proposed For Home Care Workers
Home care workers will have a measure of justice if a rule proposed by the Dept. of Labor goes into effect.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka applauded the proposed rule, which will extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to the growing home care workforce:
“The Department of Labor’s proposed rule is a long-overdue matter of basic justice for the hundreds of thousands of workers who do the vital work of providing at-home care for our nation’s elderly and disabled citizens. Every person deserves fair pay for a hard day’s work. This rule ensures home health care workers receive the same minimum wage and overtime protections as virtually all other working people.”
Home care workers have been excluded from wage and hour protections since 1974 due to over-broad regulations and a hostile Supreme Court decision. As reported in USA Today, more than 90 percent of home care workers are women, while 50 percent are minorities. Some 40 percent rely on Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits to stay afloat.
Home care workers’ services will be increasingly critical as the population ages, yet they earn an average $17,000 to $20,000 a year.
Added Trumka:
“The proposed rule is a win-win for consumers and the home care workforce. Improved working conditions will attract new workers to this quickly-growing industry while reducing turnover among existing employees. This will allow more families the choice of home-based care as a long-term care option.”
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I bet you try to make them join a union and collect more dues? Then you can get more democrats in power. Right on.
I think SweartoBullshit proves we need to have an overtime law about irrational bloggers — any time a blogger works overtime to post irrational stupidity then that blogger must pay every reader of his or her diatribe TRIPLE-AND-A-HALF in apologies !!!!
S to G bragged recently about being union in the past. It must have been a glorious day for his brothers and sisters of labor when he found the exit door. I don’t know the particulars, but I suspect that there was shouting for joy throughout the union hall. People like S to G never get it, though they really should “get it”