{"id":682,"date":"2015-08-22T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-08-22T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T17:42:29","slug":"wage-protections-for-home-care-workers-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Wage Protections For Home Care Workers Reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; MICHELLE DIAMENT,\u00a0www.disabilityscoop.com)<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court has upheld a rule requiring that in-home care workers assisting people with disabilities be paid minimum wage and overtime.\u00a0The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the Obama administration on Friday in a case challenging the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s authority to mandate a pay increase for many of the nation\u2019s 2 million home care workers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2015\/08\/21\/wage-protections-reinstated\/20587\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; MICHELLE DIAMENT,\u00a0www.disabilityscoop.com) A federal appeals court has upheld a rule requiring that in-home care workers assisting people with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-health-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}