2. Category of problem/issue: Wages
3. Level of problem/issue: National level
4. The article concerns: The care workers of American were being classified under "companionship service". This classification made it so care workers could not receive minimum wage or overtime coverage.
5. Why this is important to individuals/families OR how does this affect individuals/families?
--Under the Fair Labor Standards act, care workers will be able to receive at least minimum wage and overtime coverage. This could help those workers with living a better life.
6 . What are your views on the issue/policy?
--I personal watched my grandfather start to dwindle away this past year. He needed as much help as he could get because my grandmother could not do it all. Care workers really make a difference in their patients’ lives. They deserve to be treated fairly. Care workers work overtime all the time because the people that they are caring for are elderly and need the help twenty four hours, seven days a week. They should get a medal for what they have to do sometimes. I do not know many people who would want to change an old man’s diaper, bathe them, or have to bandage up wounds from them falling. It takes a special kind of person to do that job and it is far away from just the old babysitting gig that you had when you were fifteen.
I am glad that care workers are not under the same classification that a
babysitter is in. Yes, you do look over people, but it is not the same as
caring after an elderly person. The fact that the law does not take effect
until 2015 is good and bad. Care workers need funds now, but I do get that the
people and the programs who pay them need time to figure something out. It is
the fairest policy to all parties. "Federal officials estimate that 12
million Americans older than 65 will need some form of daily assistance by
2030." In 2015, we will only be five years away from those 12 million
Americans. I am glad that we are starting to plan now.
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