Punching In: Home-Care Industry Attacks Rule Giving Workers OT

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Ben Penn: The home-care industry is backing lawsuits across the country in a bid to overturn a U.S. Labor Department rule that extended overtime pay to some 2 million home health-care workers.

As the White House and Democratic lawmakers hype the importance of creating good-paying home-care jobs through President Joe Biden‘s infrastructure plan, the industry has helped finance a legal attack on the federal government’s mechanism intended to boost wages for workers who provide in-home care for the elderly ...