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New DOL Guidance Gives Compliance Assist

Published on Fri May 13, 2016

If you’re trying to figure out when sleep counts — and when it doesn’t — for overtime purposes now that the companionship exemption is gone, a new Department of Labor resource may help. The DOL on April 25 issued a Field Assistance Bulletin, “Exclusion of Sleep Time from Hours Worked by Domestic Service Employees,” outlining new home care examples for [...]
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