It Took Over 75 Years for Home Care Workers to Win Basic Rights. A New Rule Would Strip Them Away.
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Murray Devine
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phinational.orgIt Took Over 75 Years for Home Care Workers to Win Basic Rights. A New Rule Would Strip Them Away.phinational.orgA critical challenge facing home care in the United States dates back to 1938, when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The law granted minimum wage and overtime protections to most American workers, but deliberately excluded domestic workers—predominantly Black women. It was a choice grounded in both racism and sexism, and home care workers […] The post It Took Over 75 Years for Home Care Workers to Win Basic Rights. A New Rule Would Strip Them Away. appeared first on PHI .
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