''Long Island Care at Home, Ltd. v. Coke'', 551 U.S. 158 (2007), is a

US labor law United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "org ...

case, concerning the minimum wage.

Facts

Long Island Care at Home Ltd claimed that it did not need to pay its staff the minimum wage, despite the apparent meaning of the

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppres ...

and its rules as clarified by the

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. It argued that this was true under the Fair Labor Standards Act 1938, 29 USC §213(a)(15) which exempted persons ‘employed in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals … unable to care for themselves.’ The Department of Labor's General Regulations §552.3 further stated this had to be the ‘private home … of the person by whom he or she is employed.’

Judgment

Justice Breyer wrote for a unanimous court that the care employees were included in the minimum wage.

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