Labor and Employment
Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act
- Introduced
- Committee
- Senate
- House
- President
- Law
- Introduced
- March 12, 2026
- Sponsor
- · D–WA
- Recorded roll calls
- None recorded
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Read FactVote summary
This bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to remove specified minimum-wage and overtime exemptions for certain caregiving employees. It would retain an exemption for casual babysitting services and define babysitting services as custodial care and protection of infants or children in or about their private home, excluding services performed by trained personnel such as nurses and home care workers. Casual-basis babysitting would mean irregular or intermittent employment that is not performed by someone whose vocation is babysitting, and related household work could comprise no more than 20 percent of total hours worked while providing babysitting services.
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