Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 28 August 2015
Home-care workers are excluded from the federal law requiring most employees to receive a minimum wage—currently $7·25 an hour—and 150% of that pay when they work overtime. After 40 years, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued rules eliminating that exemption. The new rule was supposed to take effect last January but it was blocked by a lawsuit filed by associations representing companies that hire these workers. [Continued here.] [with video of Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky shadowing home-care worker Gilda Pipersburgh]
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