Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 22
- Latest action
- Mar 12, 2026
What it does
The Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to remove overtime and minimum wage exemptions for certain caregiving employees, specifically home care workers such as home health aides and personal care aides, ensuring they receive federal wage and hour protections. The bill redefines “babysitting services” to exclude care provided by trained personnel like nurses and home care workers, and clarifies that “casual basis” employment does not apply to those whose vocation is caregiving, thereby closing loopholes that have allowed employers to deny overtime and minimum wage pay to these workers. It affects home care workers employed in private homes…
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Where it stands
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Patty Murray
- Alejandro Padilla
- Andy Kim
- Angela Alsobrooks
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles Schumer
- Chris Van Hollen
- Christopher Murphy
- Cory Booker
- Edward Markey
- Elizabeth Warren
- John Hickenlooper
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Mazie Hirono
- Peter Welch
- Richard Blumenthal
- Richard Durbin
- Ron Wyden
- Ruben Gallego
- Tammy Baldwin
- Tammy Duckworth
- Timothy Kaine
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.