The Answer [posted September 12, 2006]

The statement
"Home care workers provided by a private agency
are always employees of the agency"
is False

Discussion:
It is very important to know whose employee a home care worker is.

	Is the worker the employee of the person receiving care?
	Of the agency who provided the worker?
	Or a "self-employed" "independent contractor"?

	Some agencies are solely "registries." They provide workers who are not employees of the agency.
	Other agencies provide workers, some of whom are employees of the agency, some of whom are not.

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