Overtime pay for caregivers
Americare Healthcare Services v. Department of Labor
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Americare Healthcare Services and other home-care businesses ask the Supreme Court to review a Sixth Circuit decision that deferred to a Department of Labor rule barring third-party employers from using the live-in worker overtime exemption and upheld a nearly $15 million judgment against them.
- What's at stake
- The businesses’ challenge to the nearly $15 million judgment remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
They argue the rule is invalid and that the appeals court relied on a legal theory the Department had disavowed.
The dispute concerns a federal rule that bars third-party employers, such as home-care agencies, from using an overtime exemption for live-in domestic workers.
Question presented
1. Whether under Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024), the Department of Labor’s rule declaring that third-party employers “may not avail themselves of the” live-in exemption, 29 C.F.R. § 552.109(c), is valid and binding in enforcement proceedings. 2. Whether the court of appeals’ judgment should be summarily reversed because it violates the party-presentation principle and SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943).
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the petition. No argument or decision date has been set.
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- What is Americare asking the Supreme Court to review?
- Americare asks whether the Labor Department can bar third-party employers from using the live-in worker overtime exemption under Loper Bright; it also argues the appeals court relied on a legal theory the Department had disavowed.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.