“The exclusion of an estimated 1.7 million home care workers from the federal minimum wage and overtime law has depressed wages in the industry and led to extremely long hours for those workers who provide round-the-clock care. These are the caregivers who get our grandmothers out of bed in the morning and facilitate the feeding tubes of our disabled neighbors. It’s time to close the loopholes that exempt them from federal wage and hour laws — laws most of us take for granted.”

Read more of this article by Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project and Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers

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