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Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal

More than 3 million home care workers could lose the right to overtime pay and the federal minimum wage under a rule proposed by the Labor Department.

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.

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