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Effective January 1st, 2015 all home care agencies are required to pay the federal minimum wage and overtime pay to all home care workers.
The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour. Although many states have their own minimum wage. When a worker is protected by both state and federal minimum wage laws, the worker is entitled to the higher minimum wage.
Home care agencies are no longer exempt from paying overtime for overnight cases. Overnight cases will be treated like any other case with over time being paid.
Effective January 1st, 2015 all home care agencies are required to pay the federal minimum wage and overtime pay to all home care workers.
The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour. Although many states have their own minimum wage. When a worker is protected by both state and federal minimum wage laws, the worker is entitled to the higher minimum wage.
Home care agencies are no longer exempt from paying overtime for overnight cases. Overnight cases will be treated like any other case with over time being paid.
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Employers are not required to pay for sleep time or any other long periods of time that a Home care worker can end up using for personal time.
These are the long periods of time agencies are not required to pay for:
Sleep time
Meal breaks
Personal time
Breaks while you are accompanying a client away from home
However, there are travel expenses that an agency must pay for:
If you are traveling between cases or assisting a client on errands or appointments, then it is part of a day’s work.
Anything that is part of a days work should be paid for by the employer.
In addition to these updates you should always keep good records of your time and pay.
These are the long periods of time agencies are not required to pay for:
Sleep time
Meal breaks
Personal time
Breaks while you are accompanying a client away from home
However, there are travel expenses that an agency must pay for:
If you are traveling between cases or assisting a client on errands or appointments, then it is part of a day’s work.
Anything that is part of a days work should be paid for by the employer.
In addition to these updates you should always keep good records of your time and pay.
Home Health Aide Live in Pay Court Ruiling
New York State court ruling changes 24-hour shift pay
Home Health Aide's previously that worked a 24-hour case would only get paid for 13 hours. Aides could not get paid while they sleep, a court ruling has changed that law.