Summary

Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to narrow certain domestic-worker exemptions and to add clear legal definitions for babysitting services and the term “casual basis.” The changes exclude home care workers (including home health aides and personal care aides) and trained medical personnel from the babysitting exception and limit incidental household tasks performed while babysitting to no more than 20% of total babysitting hours. The bill also directs the Secretary of Labor to define and delimit what counts as “casual basis” babysitting (irregular or intermittent employment not performed by someone whose vocation is babysitting), which clarifies when FLSA minimum-wage and overtime protections apply to in-home care and babysitting work.

• Narrows FLSA domestic-worker exemptions to change who is covered by federal minimum-wage and overtime rules.
• Adds a federal definition of “babysitting services” that covers custodial child care in the child’s private home and excludes trained medical personnel and home care workers.
• Defines “casual basis” babysitting as irregular or intermittent work not done by someone whose vocation is babysitting, and gives the Secretary of Labor authority to define it further.
• Limits incidental household tasks performed during babysitting to no more than 20% of total babysitting hours.
• Repeals a specific subsection of the FLSA exemption language and replaces other exemption text to reflect these coverage changes.
• Makes it clearer that home health aides and personal care aides are not to be treated as babysitters for the exemption, increasing likelihood they are covered by wage-and-hour protections.
• Requires employers and households to reassess worker classification and pay practices under the revised FLSA definitions.
• Creates a federal rulemaking role for the Secretary of Labor to set the practical boundaries of the “casual basis” exception.