Who do I represent?
- Home health aides and personal care attendants
- Caregivers in group homes and host home settings
- Live-in caregivers and 24-hour shift workers
- CNAs and med aides working for staffing agencies
- DD Waiver direct support professionals (more here)
How the violations work
Since 2015, home care agencies cannot use the old companionship exemption. Agency-employed aides are entitled to overtime, period. The common violations now are quieter: paying per visit while ignoring the drive time that strings the visits together, deducting sleep time from 24-hour shifts that did not qualify for the deduction, splitting hours between two related agencies to keep each paycheck under 40, and calling caregivers independent contractors.
Each of those has the same effect: hours worked past 40 with no time and a half. Federal law makes those hours recoverable for two years back, three if the violation was willful, usually doubled as liquidated damages, with attorney's fees paid by the agency.
What it costs
Nothing upfront. Free consultation, contingency fee. If there is no recovery, you pay nothing, not even the costs.