The hour is the unit.
Wage-and-hour notes for California home care operators, written by someone who runs payroll every Friday — not by someone who read about it.
A twelve-hour scale with the ninth hour marked, where California daily overtime begins.
Home Care PAGA Partners is being built right now. When it's ready, this list hears first.
What's coming: plain-language breakdowns of the 2024 PAGA reform, what the LWDA rulemaking actually changes once it lands, and the wage-and-hour details that are specific to home care and get glossed over everywhere else — travel time between clients, split-shift premiums, the 80/20 duty rule, live-in and 24-hour arrangements, and what a scheduling system does and doesn't prove when someone asks for records.
No pitch until there's something to pitch.
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Who's building this
I'm Brian. I run a licensed home care organization in North County San Diego and serve on the board of the San Diego Regional Home Care Council. I've spent the last stretch reconciling scheduling data against payroll, hour by hour, building the documentation record the reformed statute rewards.
Everything here comes out of that work. If it doesn't survive contact with a real caregiver schedule, it doesn't go in the newsletter.