European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 your Money no overtime pay for Home care workers court ruling could Worsen already High turnover by Pete Yost the associated press Washington Home care workers Are not entitled to overtime pay under fed eral the supreme court ruled this a setback for a growing labor Force of More than 1 million the unanimous decision came in the Case of Evelyn a 73yearold Retiree who spent More than two decades helping the ill and the elderly and is now in failing health the labor depart ment did not exceed its authority when it excluded Home care workers from Over time Protection and courts should defer would if you feel its an easy step into my Lori Reynolds a Home care worker in new York of 40 percent to 60 percent the employees Union government lawyers told the supreme court in april that the goal is ensuring that the elderly who most need Home care service receive it at a reasonable Nancy Duff co president of the National women Law called the decision another blow to Low wage two weeks the court limited workers ability to sue for pay ruling against a Goodyear employee who earned thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts but waited too Long to com half of Home care workers Are Minori to the departments Justice Stephen and 90 percent Are according Breyer relieving employers and an Gering workers rights the Bush administration opposed cokes Challenge to the labor depart ments 1975 a new administration should rewrite it to give workers the Protection they said the service employees International which represents hundreds of thousands of work ers in that the Clinton administration had drafted a regulation to cover the but the Rule was shelved after president Bush took office in Home care aides Are the key to the inde to 2000 census their wages remain among the lowest in the service says the Bureau of labor i would if you feel its an easy step into my said Home care worker Lori Reynolds in new York who said she is truly disappointed by the courts in cokes the supreme court was wrong about what Congress said Harold Craig cokes Lead at the labor department wrote the restrictive regulation after Congress expanded the Laws pendent life senior citizens but Lack paying time and a half for hours in sex of adequate pay is fueling turnover rates Cess of 40 a week would Cost the Home care Industry when you try to apply traditional labor Law to this Home care scenario its really pretty said Paul founder of an firm pro Viding Home health care the Home instead senior has 540 franchises in the United states with Fulland Par time Many seniors need Long hours of com even said if the exemption is eliminated the Cost of service would go so High it would drive Many seniors into the Gray Market where they would be hiring Home care workers there would be no no no supervision and no in new York the annual Cost of the medicaid funded personal care services program would Rise by at least a Quarter of a billion dollars if court Deci Sion is allowed to the City cokes former Long Island care at Home says it would experience tremendous and unsustainable losses if it had to comply with Federal Over time Many Home care workers were brought under the Laws Protection starting with democratic administrations in the in Congress broadened the Law to cover workers in a variety of the subsequent labor department Rule re versed fair labor standards act coverage for Home care workers who previously had the int it asked Justice Ruth Bader that the goal of the 1974 Law was to add yet the government now argues that Congress intended to subtract Evelyn Coke shown in new York in april lost in court monday when the supreme court ruled that Home care work ers Are not entitled to overtime pay under Federal coverage for Home care workers who had previously been covered we think it was Well within the Agency the lawyer for the Federal 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