people working part time, what is the law?

[barbara]

If a person qualifies , they can get in home help from a federal program called In Home Supportive Services. The in home workers from IHSS are members of SEIU and receive some benefits.

Consumers pay on a sliding scale or receive free services depending on income. Family members can be the caregiver and get paid.

Also, (limited)free in home care is available to anyone over the age of sixty through the Older Americans Act (federal funding).

Contact your local Area Agency on Aging to find out about local services in your area.

[noonereal]

the latest.....

She gets a text for an 8 hour day tomarrow. Calls in to accept... literally less than 3 minutes later...

"oh, sorry, I sent the text to 3 people and someone accepted already"

this is the great American. Capitalism at it's zenith.

Unions are evil.

Poor folks are lazy.

My youngest had a similar experience this summer.

Complete different industry. Just treated like trash. She missed practices (for freakin Olympic qualifying no less) and pro amp games yet would be sent home after an hour from an 8 hour schedule or be called last minute and told not to come in at all.

Wound up making 56 dollars on the summer and was tied up for weeks.

Something is very wrong in America.

[Grumpy]

Not to be Mr. obvious here but your friend really needs a new gig. Even working for min wage somewhere would pay more than this scam of a job..

[icenine]

I would look for a new agency if possible without quitting the old one....
if she could get better hours with a new one and then use the other one for some random hours it would be good in that she would have two sources of income...

I would imagine other agencies probably pull the same shit....her co-workers probably know the good places.

I am under the suspicion that Medicare and Medicaid pay these agencies to provide home care, and they in turn try to maximize their overhead by low balling on wages and hours.

[icenine]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-re...-care-workers/

Here is the reason: FDR's Fair Labor And Standards Act exempted domestic service from wage regulations, and home health care workers are considered domestic servants instead of regular employees. That is why they are not paid very well. Obama's Labor Department has tried to shore up protections for home health care workers but a Federal judge overturned that action, but that has been reversed on appeal.

What we really need is a Democratic Congress.