SEIU Bill Introduced to Ensure Fair Pay for Home Care Workers

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Wednesday introduced the Fair Home Health Care Act of 2007 “to honor the extraordinary value of the work that home health care workers do” and ensure fair pay. This SEIU-proposed legislation is a response to the June Supreme Court decision that maintained home care workers are not entitled to minimum wage and overtime protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act. More