Important Companionship Exemption Ruling Affects Home Care

Recently, the federal U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia decided in the case of the Home Care Association of America, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice vs. David Weil, administrator of the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division, in favor of the associations. The lawsuit challenged a rule that would prohibit the application of two overtime compensation exemptions: companionship services and live-in domestic services. It would have applied whenever caregivers were employed by anyone except the direct consumer of their services. Had the rule passed, it would have created higher care costs for consumers and for financially strapped government funding programs, such as Medicaid. Read more here: http://merrilyorsini.com/2014/12/important-companionship-exemption-ruling-affects-home-care/