Home Care Workers Fail in Joint Employer Unpaid Overtime Appeal

Home care workers failed to show that a company acting as an intermediary between them and Medicaid recipients functioned as their joint employer, dooming their overtime claims, the Third Circuit ruled.

Public Partnerships LLC lacked significant control over the workers’ jobs because it doesn’t have the final say over their day-to-day functions, compensation, or hiring and firing, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said Tuesday in an unpublished opinion.

“At most, the record points to PPL implementing requirements set by the program” and Pennsylvania’s long-term living office, and helping the workers and Medicaid recipients to participate ...