Amara Home Care Services Owes Home Health Aides Overtime Pay, Lawsuit Claims

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Amara Home Care Services, Inc. and two individual owners have been named in a proposed collective action in which a former employee claims the defendants have yet to recognize a new rule that became effective in January 2015 and granted overtime protections to home care workers. According to the suit, the U.S. Department of Labor issued the Home Care Final Rule in October 2013 extending wage protections to “almost 2 million home care workers.” Despite the rule’s effective date of January 1, 2015, the defendants continue to deny their home health aides premium overtime wages, the case says. The plaintiff claims she works between 15 and 20 overtime hours per week but is paid at her straight-time rate for all hours worked.