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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed regulations that would substantially reduce overtime obligations for home care and related employers. ...more
Employers in the home health care industry should take note of a recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that could change the way employees providing companionship services and live-in domestic services are...more
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued a proposed rule that would reinstate the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime exemption for home care workers employed by...more
Key Points: Travel during the workday between clients’ homes is compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act....more
For most non-exempt employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act considers time spent traveling during the working day to be compensable working time. Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals applied this principle to travel...more
The U.S. Department of Labor is becoming more aggressive in its enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act and this aggressiveness is nowhere better exemplified than in the health care industry, where compliance issues...more
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
On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of certiorari in Home Care Association of America v. Weil, leaving the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Home Care Rule intact. The Home...more
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Labor began enforcement of its Home-Care Rule, which prohibits third-party employers from taking advantage of the overtime exemption for some domestic workers. The rule also narrows the...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), due to pending litigation, had not begun to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) final rule on protections relating to most home care workers, which rules had an effective date of...more
Recently, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Home Care Association of America, et al. v. Weil, that the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) regulations about the inapplicability of certain statutory exemptions for...more
On August 21, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s revisions to the “companionship exemption” under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and reversed two...more
Domestic service workers providing either companionship service or live-in care for elderly, ill or disabled persons and who are employed by a staffing agency or other third-party employer are entitled to minimum wage and...more
Home care patients, caregivers and the entire home care community celebrated a huge victory to kick off 2015. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC court) vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s)...more
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
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has long provided an exemption for overtime wages to employees engaged in "companionship services," such as in-home caretakers who sleep at their patients' homes. Recently, however, the...more
Individuals and families who for years have directly employed domestic workers to care for elderly or ill family members will see their labor costs increase dramatically beginning January 1, 2015. Under the U.S. DOL's Final...more
Many groups that have lobbied for change as it relates to home care aides seem to have received some victory. Specifically, the Labor Department announced a Final Rule on September 17, 2013 that extends overtime and wage...more
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
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division issued a final rule on September 17, 2013 that will extend the minimum wage and overtime protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act to in-home workers who...more
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
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
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
On September 17, 2013, the United States Department of Labor announced a final rule which will extend the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime provisions to home health care workers. Some two million home...more