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The Federal Wage-Hour Guide for Service Providers to Persons with Disabilities 2008 Edition

Disability service providers have special wage hour concerns not faced by other employers. They include the special wage provision for persons with disabilities and special rules for the staff of residential programs. Organizations that provide residential services must also deal with special rules dealing with sleep time. Service providers are also employers and must deal with the same overtime and other wage-hour issues that all employers face. The Federal Wage-Hour Guide for Service Providers to Persons With Disabilities will assist you in ensuring that your program is in compliance with the law.

Includes DOL’s Field Operations Handbook – the information DOL investigators use.

Updated with latest interpretations from Department of Labor

The latest information on ‘white collar’ exemptions and overtime rules.

Information on "School to Work"

Information on providing prevocational services under Medicaid Home and Community Based Services waiver program.

More information on
supported employment
measuring productivity for hourly paid workers
"volunteer" issues"
"disabled for the job"

Copies of the Laws and Regulations
Copies of DOL Forms

Client/Worker Issues
Staff Wages
Residential Staff

Determining Commensurate Rates
Finding Prevailing Rates
Measuring Productivity
Professional, Executive, & Administrative Exemptions

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Employment Status of Client/Workers

Are clients employees? It should be a simple question.

But its not. It is a question that has more than one answer - and the answers are often contradictory and confusing.

This loose leaf service by Harles & Associates brings you more than twenty years of legal expertise in a field were there are few experts. You will get the most recent decisions for IRS, NLRB, Department of Labor, etc. You will get an analysis of how these decisions will impact on your programs. Chapters include:

IRS - They have changed their interpretations about which clients can be excluded from employment taxes, including FICA. You need to know the new criteria or it could be costly.

FLSA - When does a client have to be paid for activities in a rehabilitation setting? Special emphasis on training, community assessments, and volunteer situations.

ADA - Rehabilitation programs know about the ADA but do you know how it effects you as an employer? Does your fringe benefit program discriminate against persons with disabilities through denial of employment status to some clients?

NLRB - Are your clients subject to collective bargaining?

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Ordering Books

Copies of the Federal Wage-Hour Guide and the Employment Status ofClient/Workers are $100 each. A set of both books is $175.

Shipping is $10.00 per order or at cost for multiple book orders.

Use of purchase orders is an additional $10.00 fee.

Books may be purchased by check, charge (Master Card/Visa) or purchase order.

The best way to order is by phone: 202.546.2847

Note: Members of certain state associations of rehabilitation providers are eligible for a reduced price on the books.