Home Care Rule Advocacy Fact Sheet: How to Prevent Service Cuts and Protect Consumer-Directed Programs
A new home care rule narrows the types of home care workers who are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime requirements, meaning more home care workers will be entitled to these protections. Some states, however, may consider actions that would technically bring them into compliance with the new rule but would undermine its goals and could lead to cuts in critical community services for consumers, workforce shortages, and even the abandoning of the consumer-directed programs for which people with disabilities and seniors have long fought.
