You need Javascript enabled for this to workPHI Campaign Calls for Fair Pay for Home Care Workers
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Summary

PHI has launched a social media campaign calling on Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis to end the exclusion of home care workers from minimum wage and overtime protections.

Since 1975, the DOL has equated home care workers with "casual babysitters" and excluded them from labor protections granted to most other American workers through the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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