Ben Penn, Bloomberg BNA, April 12 Industry advocates will urge the next labor secretary to reverse an Obama-era rule that extended minimum wage and overtime coverage to some 2 million home-care employees, a trade group’s top attorney told Bloomberg BNA. “We will be seeking the reinstatement of the original rules on the companionship services and live-in domestic services exemptions once the new Secretary is confirmed,” William Dombi, vice president for law at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, said in an April 11 email. NAHC will ask for an in-person meeting to make this request, he said. He […]
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1999-2008: UDW caregivers win our collective bargaining rights and transform our union to one for caregivers by caregivers. We also win direct deposit for our IHSS paychecks! 2009: UDW stops Governor Schwarzeneggar’s attempt to decrease the state’s contribution to our wages and benefits and put unfair limits on who can receive car 2010: Together we stop Governor Schwarzeneggar from eliminating IHSS entirely. 2011: We also win legislation that both ends timesheet fingerprint requirements, and requires counties to give us our background check results and appeals information. We successfully urge lawmakers to protect IHSS by finding new funding when Governor Brown tries to end certain […]
Read more →A new president means a new administration and new policies. And new policies or changes to existing ones can have effects on the IHSS program. While we don’t know what will happen yet, there are some things IHSS providers and recipients should be aware of as we continue our work to protect and strengthen California’s home care program. Congress and the President-elect could change Medicaid from an entitlement program to a block grant program. This means, instead of states being required to cover every person who meets eligibility criteria and provide at least a minimum standard of benefits, Medicaid funds […]
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