Under the Department of Labor’s Final Rule on Domestic Service, a “Sleep-In” worker is one who is required to be on duty for 24 hours or more. This worker differs from a “Live-In Domestic Services Employee” (“Live-In”) who (1) provides services in a private home, and (2) resides on the employer’s premises on a “permanent basis” (works and sleeps at the employer’s premises and has no home of his or her own), or for “extended periods of time” (works and sleeps at the employer’s premises for five days a week (120 hours or more)) or resides there for five consecutive nights or days at a time.
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