Biden: Home Care Workers Deserve Minimum Wage and Overtime

Vice-President Biden, speaking on the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, discusses the Administration's plans to honor its pledge to stop excluding home care workers from federal minimum wage and overtime protections. Shares personal story of employing caregivers for his mom.

[Michael-yxnp]

Minimum wage gives children pocket change while suppressing the incentive to become adult. Corporations soak up the added cost by reducing pay increases for entry level management. Net effect: Pay gap between starting worker and the person managing those starting employees is closed, thus taking away incentive for anyone to progress, particularly preventing children from developing into adults. Those same children who become young adults will soon need a job, and they need to be making more money so they can go to college and/or raise children. Management jobs provide the fuel for responsible young adults, and we should be supporting them and not the children living at home with their parents who already earn $50k-$250k/year.

[philipericbennett]

Almost no professional workers make less than minimum wage according to federal studies.  And we workers have needed the extra hours above 40 hours per week to make a living wage.  This change will cause our hours to be cut to an average of 40 hours or less and force the hiring of less competent workers with less of an incentive to do a good job.  The only real beneficiaries: SEIU because it'll bring in more dues-paying workers to fill in the hours taken from us and the nursing home industry.