
Hiring a Foreign Domestic Worker: Q&A for Household Employers
The following questions and answers will help ensure household employers know more about the employment of a foreign domestic worker.
The following questions and answers will help ensure household employers know more about the employment of a foreign domestic worker.
Following the Department of Labor’s publication of the Home Care Final Rule in 2015, many employers still have questions about the rules for paying home care workers legally.
As part of the state’s Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights legislation, California Wage Order 15, which had previously exempted personal attendants from overtime pay, was amended to remove this exemption and now requires personal attendants be paid overtime compensation at one and one-half times the employees’ regular rate of pay.
While it is not madatory to sign timesheets, we recommend that employees acknowledge that their time records are accurate, either by signing them or by some other submission and acknowledgment method or technology.
Even if you’re not being questioned by a Senate panel, you can still be exposed for paying under the table. Here are some examples of why paying nanny taxes is not just for government officials, and how anyone can be exposed for breaking the law.
The new Form I-9—the form used to verify the identity and employment authorization of all individuals hired for employment in the United States – was released on November 14, 2016. Here are some of the most common Form I-9 FAQs we’ve received.