U.S. District Judge Richard Leon had scrapped part of the overturns home health care wage, overtime rules in December, and Wednesday 1/14/15 he completed the process.
In his decision, Leon said that the Labor Department's concerns about wages for home care providers are understandable, but that Congress is the appropriate forum in which to debate a complex issue affecting so many families.
President Barack Obama announced the rules in 2011, avoiding a trip through a hostile Congress that would have been required had the administration chosen the legislative path. Obama presented the rules through executive branch action.
The law Congress wrote in 1974 exempted home health care workers from wage and overtime requirements.