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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Exempt-Employees Home Healthcare Workers

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Home Care Agencies and Their Clients Could Get Relief Through DOL Proposal to Reinstate Companionship, Live-In Exemptions

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The “companionship services” exemption to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime requirements would again be available to third-party agencies that employ home caregivers and live-in domestic service...more

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Home Health Care Misclassification Lawsuits Rising

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Plaintiffs’ wage-and-hour class action lawyers are constantly looking for new groups of employees whom they can claim are inappropriately classified as exempt. In previous decades, plaintiffs’ lawyers focused on mortgage...more

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Many Home Companionship Workers No Longer Exempt

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Agencies and other third-party employers of live-in household employees and home companionship providers, take note: the long-delayed regulations reclassifying many of these workers as non-exempt employees entitled to minimum...more

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