Labor Department Sues Home Care Companies

The Labor Department filed a handful of lawsuits against home care providers for wage-and-hour violations, signaling that the DOL isn’t likely to soon revisit an Obama era rule that entitles domestic service workers to minimum wages and overtime pay.

The agency has sued at least five different home care companies in separate cases over the past three weeks, Bloomberg Law’s review of federal court dockets shows. The department accuses the companies of failing to pay home care workers minimum hourly wages or refusing to pay the workers time-and-a-half rates for all hours beyond 40 per week.

A Labor Department spokesman ...