A Simplified Approach to Wage Parity Compliance
How does home care worker Wage Parity work? Clarity Wage Parity for home care workers is a comprehensive benefit package designed to stretch your pay parity dollars. We make it easy to comply with living wage and wage parity pay regulations. Our industry-leading, efficient, compliant, and comprehensive Wage Parity package is available to home health agencies and their employees in New York City and surrounding areas. With our home care worker wage parity solution, we can help you provide Aides with stronger benefits that meet their needs while reducing the payroll burden that comes with providing additional cash wages.
What Is Home Care Worker Wage Parity
As of 2012, employers in New York City and surrounding areas must pay home care workers a living wage. The amount changes by county. Clarity Benefit Solutions makes it easy and affordable for companies to comply with the Home Care Worker Wage Parity Act.
How Home Care Wage Parity Works
According to the Home Care Worker Wage Parity Act, affected employers must pay a minimum base pay of $10.00 per hour to their employees. An additional amount of $3.00 - $4.09 per hour must also be paid either in wages, employer benefits, or a combination of the two. Clarity Benefit Solutions allows for those employer benefits to be automatically calculated and distributed via pre-tax consumer benefits. Employees get easy access to their money, and employers save time and money through our automated process.
CLARITY Home Care Wage Parity & Compliance Solution
A comprehensive benefit package designed to stretch your wage parity dollar Clarity Benefit Solutions is offering an industry-leading, efficient, compliant, and comprehensive Wage Parity package available for home health agencies and their employees in New York City and surrounding areas. Clarity helps your business save money while staying compliant.
Clarity makes it easy to comply with living wage and wage parity pay regulations. Clarity helps you to provide Aides with stronger home care worker wage parity benefits that meets their needs, has high utilization and reduces the payroll burden (FICA, Unemployment taxes) that come with providing additional cash wages.
Pre‐Tax Flexible Benefit Accounts
DEPENDENT CARE REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT (DCAP)
Employers can contribute up to $5,000 per year. This Account enables participants to pay for eligible child care and adult day care.
TRANSIT REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT (TRN)
Employers can contribute up to $270 per month for mass transit and an additional $270 per month for work related parking.
DENTAL AND VISION REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT (HRA)
Employers contribute into this account which enables participants to pay for their out‐of‐pocket dental and vision care expenses. There is no limit to what an employer can contribute this this account. This Account can be established with an annual roll‐over feature.
CELL PHONE REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT
Employers can reimburse up to $100 per month to pay for employee’s cell phone bill so that employee/employer communication can occur.
