"Supreme" Court Rules That Home Care Workers NOT Entitled To Overtime

[Dinger]

What in the holy fuck is this shit? What's next, NO overtime for anybody? Maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but I have to wonder what's next.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSUEC672ZtuE&refer=us

"Wage Law Doesn't Cover Home-Care Workers, Top U.S. Court Rules
By Greg Stohr

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Federal minimum-wage and overtime rules don't apply to home-care workers employed by companies and other organizations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

The justices today unanimously said the 1974 Fair Labor Standards Act exempts workers hired by outside organizations to provide companionship services for housebound people. The high court reinstated a 32-year-old Labor Department regulation that a New York-based federal appeals court had struck down."

[pscot]

1. Completely amoral

The foxes voing on chicken's rights. The rich used to have some sense of noblesse oblige, but not this crowd.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Isn't that a problem with the *law*, and not the court?

[bluerum]

3. This is rather disgusting. The health care industry is raking it in. eom

[malaise]

4. Frightening

Federal minimum-wage and overtime rules don't apply to home-care workers employed by companies and other organizations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
-----------The robber barons rule.

[Elspeth]

5. This is awful

It looks like this Supreme Court is just getting worse and worse.

[madrchsod]

6. that`s going to attract a lot of quality people

into the home health care industry...oh well why spend money on the useless old or handicapped people.

[Elspeth]

7. Maybe the boomers will think about this since they will be getting ready for home health care soon

We'll soon be a nation with no protections at all.

[Pastiche423]

10. Pardon me?

What do the boomers have to do w/the way SCOTUS ruled?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. 5 words: "Reagan Democrats", GOP USSC appointments

[Pastiche423]

12. What does that mean?

[madrchsod]

14. yup i`m 60 and i see the hand writing on the wall

i don`t see either party doing jack shit about health care in this country...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. What's The Argument The Court Used In Their Ruling?

[ashling]

9. The Congress should

reduce judges to minimum wage.

[proud patriot]

13. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

:grr: