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Has anyone else had their home healthcare start charging overtime for eating and sleeping time for their workers? I know someone who was paying $4,000 per week and now the company wants to charge $12,000 per week instead, citing IL law changes / requirements to overtime pay for home healthcare workers (or perhaps overtime pay in general?) as the reason. Can anyone shed light on this? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!!

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A week?? Are you sure you don't mean per month?
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Jotto13 May 23, 2024
Yes. per week. I asked the same question
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It is only going to get more and more and more expensive. People no longer have to DO the tough jobs because there are so many jobs out there in the "gig" economy. Drivers, and delivery folks, folks who cook for other folks, writing their own tickets about how many hours they work. I think that this is a brave new world to be certain; now we will see how to survive it.
You may no longer be able to afford to hire through the agencies.
However that would mean not getting their vetting, their insurance, their replacements for ill, etc.
1600 a month for inhome care is, yes, expensive.
Compared to what your ALF would cost it is NOT expensive.
Everything is relative and everything depends upon your assets.
Couple next door, always head of my partner and I by about 6 years are now, on the downslide. We are 81/83 and they are 87/91. BOTH now have medical issues after staying relatively healthy enough to go back and forth half the year to live in Europe, half the year here. That's done now and both don't even much come into the garden. They have one of those agencies that is minimum of 4 hours a day three days a week, and manage at home, and as I can figure it costs them about 1,200 a mo to do so.
Thinking on what ALF would cost they are able to do this as son lives on their property. Works for them.
For ourselves, none of our grown children who live in proximity to us are as well as we are, as luck would have it for them.

You figure it out the best you are able. It's as individual as our own thumbprints.

Again, all of this is about where you live, cost of living there, your assets and how long you might live. And for most in our country aging is a scary situation to be certain.
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lealonnie1 May 22, 2024
$16,000 a month is what OP is claiming the cost is now, increasing to $48,000 which makes no sense at all. AL is always LESS expensive than in home care.
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This month we used an Illinois caregiver agency that was provided by care.com. There was a lot of explanation about overtime. I do not have the specifics. The decision was quickly made to only use an agency caregiver for 40 hours a week- 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Last year when we got a quote from the same agency, the cost of 24/7 caregivers -you need two as they split the week, was over $10,000 a month.

If you are interested in care.com , they started us out with 3 agency referrals. One of the three sounded really good and was really good. They will send you more agency referrals if you like. They also give you access to non-agency caregivers in your area that are looking for work.
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Jotto13 May 24, 2024
Thank you for this valuable advice / information.
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MN metro Minneapolis has a new overtime law going into effect July 1, but it has to do with mandatory OT for salaried employees, so employers are scrambling to convert salaried workers to hourly wage. Not sure this is what's going on in IL since healthcare aids are usually hourly to begin with...

"The Illinois overtime legislation mandates that overtime in Illinois is set at 1.5 times the regular hourly wage for workers who exceed 40 hours a week. Since the regular Illinois minimum wage is $14.00 per hour, Illinois' overtime minimum wage is $21.00 per hour (one and a half times the minimum wage)."
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