Fix pay for home care workers
The U.S. Department of Labor is poised to do something about that. It may eliminate a 28-yearold exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act so that home care workers receive minimum wage and overtime pay.
It’s only a matter of time before you or someone you love will need help from home care workers. When you watch them in action, as I did most recently in the last weeks of my mother-inlaw’s life, you know them to be skilled but also incredibly kind. It is a humbling moment indeed when you realize just how much you’ve come to depend on the committed, nonjudgmental care of strangers.