PHI Midterm Policy Brief Series: Defend Labor Rights
Direct care workers are losing the basic workplace protections that millions of other American workers take for granted. This brief, the third in PHI’s three-part midterm policy series, examines how federal actions—including a proposed rollback of minimum wage and overtime protections for home care workers, weakened worker-classification standards, and the repeal of nursing home staffing standards—are deepening long-standing job quality challenges for this largely female, disproportionately immigrant and BIPOC workforce.
Defend Labor Rights assesses the erosion of labor protections and oversight infrastructure and its consequences for workforce stability and care quality, and sets out concrete recommendations for policymakers, from restoring wage and overtime protections to reinstating nursing home staffing standards and investing in a national direct care workforce strategy.
Click here to read the first brief in this series, Restore Medicaid, which examines how Medicaid cuts are destabilizing the direct care workforce.
Click here to read the second brief in this series, Support Immigrants, which examines how federal immigration policy is destabilizing the direct care workforce.
