Hundreds of former and current home-care workers and their allies rallied last week outside the state Division of Labor Standards in downtown Brooklyn to demand an end to the notorious 24-hour workday and to recoup the wages they say they are owed.
The notorious practice assigns home-care workers to the home of a patient who needs around-the-clock care but for which they are paid for just 13 hours, with the other 11 hours, ostensibly catalogued as time for sleep and meals, unpaid.
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