Domestic workers NY · NJ · FL
Home health aides, housekeepers and building porters often work 24-hour shifts for an agency that pays a fixed amount per shift. New York has a precise rule for that, and agencies do not always meet its conditions.
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Each of these may be a claim under federal law or the law of the state where you worked. The oldest weeks fall out of reach as time passes, so the clock matters.
New York lets an agency pay 13 hours of a 24-hour shift only if you were given eight hours for sleep and actually got at least five of them without interruption, and were given three hours of meal breaks. If the patient needed you at night, the hours are owed.
A worker who actually lives in the employer’s home earns overtime after 44 hours a week. Everyone else, including an aide who works 24-hour shifts but lives elsewhere, earns it after 40.
Time spent traveling from one client to the next during the day is work time.
Deductions for supplies, uniforms or “training” are unlawful in New York outside a short list that needs your written consent.
Every worker in New York must get a written pay notice at hire and a statement with each paycheck. Missing paperwork carries fixed statutory damages.
Babysitters & nannies have their own page under New York’s Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights.
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