Home Care Aide Overtime: An Alarming Trend in the Courts

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) issued a significant rule change in 2014 that was slated to take effect on January 1, 2015. That rule change essentially eliminated the longstanding “companionship services” and “live-in domestic services” exemptions from minimum wage and overtime compensation as they had applied to home care services. In response to the…