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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

DOL Issues Opinion Letter Providing Guidance On The Legality Of Certain Non-Traditional Pay

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The DOL issued an opinion letter approving a pay model where an employer in the home health field payed its employees at an hourly rate for time spent with patients without additional hourly pay for time...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

DOL Announces Delay to Home Care Worker Wage Regulations

Last October, the federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division sent shockwaves through the home health care industry by issuing final rules declaring most of its employees to be subject to FLSA minimum wage and...more

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Companions No More: U.S. Department of Labor Extends Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections to Home Health Care Workers

Beginning on January 1, 2015, the Fair Labor Standards Act will extend its minimum wage and overtime protections to nearly all home health care workers. This changes the playing field for an estimated two million workers who...more

Morgan Lewis

Most Home Care Workers to Be Entitled to Minimum Wage and Overtime

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule extending the minimum wage and overtime requirements to most home care workers becomes effective January 1, 2015. ...more

Baker Donelson

Employers of Home Care Workers to Begin Paying Overtime in January 2015

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On September 17, 2013, the United States Department of Labor issued a final rule, extending the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act to home health care workers who provide care for the sick, disabled or elderly,...more

Fisher Phillips

Major Changes To Home Companionship Exemption Announced

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On September 17, the U.S. Labor Department (DOL) announced that it will be issuing a final rule that will bring significant changes to the “companionship” exemption in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s Section 13(a)(15)....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Minimum Wage And Overtime Pay Extended To Certain Direct Home Care Workers

On September 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division announced a final rule extending the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime protections to cover certain direct care workers such as...more

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