Beyond Hospice: Home Health Agencies Plagued by UPICs and SMRCs
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently reinstated regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), extending federal minimum wage and overtime requirements to home health workers employed by third-party...more
The U.S. Labor Department has now announced that, beginning on November 12, it will start enforcing its revised regulations governing the Fair Labor Standard Act's Section 13(a)(15) "companionship" exemption and Section...more
A U.S. Department of Labor final regulation prohibiting third-party home care agencies and other third-party employers from taking advantage of the Companionship and Live-In Domestic Worker minimum wage and overtime...more
In a ruling on December 22, 2014, in the case of Home Care Association of America et al. v. Weil, the US District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a significant new regulation in the Department of Labor’s (DOL)...more