Home health aides may move forward with their wage-and-hour suit after a federal judge in Connecticut ruled a valid Labor Department rule blocked their employer from invoking a “live-in” exemption to minimum wage and overtime requirements.
A 2015 DOL rule preventing third-party employers like Fairfield Healthcare Services Inc. from using the “companionship” and “live-in” exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements is a “reasonable interpretation” of the law, the US District Court for the District of Connecticut said, denying the company’s dismissal motion.
Gwendoline Aboah and Tania Stewart accuse their former employer, which does ...
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