In Coming Year’s Agenda, DoL Plans to Reconsider Companionship Exemption to Overtime Pay in Light of ‘Changes in the Home Care Industry’

In a notice in the April 26 issue of the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) laid out its agenda for review and development of regulations throughout the coming year. Part of that agenda includes a reassessment of the “companionship services” exemption by which home care aides and personal care workers are not…