A bill making it illegal for home health aides to be assigned to shifts of more than 12 hours at a time is gaining steam in the NYC City Council. It would end a practice in NY where home care workers are assigned to 24-hour shifts and paid for 13 hours.
Participant seen holding a sign at the protest. Home care workers, seniors, and people with disabilities held a rally at the Fordham Bus Plaza in the Bronx in support of fair pay, March 12, 2021Participant seen holding a sign at the protest.
“The years of working grueling 24-hour shifts without sleep have taken a toll on our health, inflicting injuries and permanent disabilities in our hands, arms, legs, and backs — and causing most of us to suffer from insomnia,” home care workers wrote in an open letter urging Gresham to speak out in favor of the “No More 24 Act.”
The union and other critics said they also worry the bill will not be paired with the additional home care funding and staffing needed to split each 24-hour shift in two. The state’s home care industry has already been . The rule is based on the assumption that aides will be able to eat and rest during the other hours they spend at their clients’ homes, and that they will get compensated for the full 24 hours if they don’t get the sleep and meal time required under the law.that they routinely have to tend to their patients overnight and miss out on both rest and fair pay.
He also worried the City Council bill doesn’t sufficiently address what happens if a home aide’s 12-hour shift is up and another caregiver hasn’t shown up. The bill would levy fines against any home care agency that keeps an aide in a patient’s home longer than 12 hours, with only limited exceptions for an “an unforeseeable emergent circumstance.”
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