WAC 296-17A-6511:

296-17A-6510 << 296-17A-6511 >> 296-17A-6512

PDFWAC 296-17A-6511

Classification 6511.

6511-00 Chore services/home care assistants

Applies to:

Businesses providing chore services/home care assistants to private individuals.

Some common terms to describe these types of services include supported living, tenant support, and intensive tenant support services.

Chore services performed by the chore workers/home care assistants include, but are not limited to:

• Companionship;

• General household chores;

• Meal planning and preparation;

• Personal care, such as bathing, body care, dressing, and help with ambulating; and

• Shopping and errands, either with or without the client.

Additional work activities included in this classification are:

• House sitting;

• Organizing homes prior to customers having an estate auction or putting a home on the market;

• Packing up senior homes;

• Pet sitting; and

• Supervising visits between children and parents, including transporting the child.

Exclusions:

• Businesses organizing homes and also conducting estate auctions are classified in 6603.

• Social workers and dieticians employed by home health care service businesses are classified in 6303-21. Workers for businesses in classification 6303-21 are teaching people living with physical or developmental disabilities living in their own home how to manage daily living skills, such as caring for themselves, dressing, cooking, etc. Workers for businesses in classification 6511 are performing this work as a service to individuals.

• Worker hours for individuals working under a welfare special works training program are reported separately in classification 6505.

• Businesses engaged in residential cleaning or janitorial services are classified in 6602.

• Skilled or semiskilled nursing care is classified in 6110.

• Home health care providers covered under the consumer directed employer program are classified in 6512.

• Businesses engaged in the moving and storage of household furnishings are classified in 6907.

• Businesses engaged in staging services are classified in 0607.

• Any construction related work is classified in the applicable construction classification.

6511-20 Community action organizations - Chore services/home care assistants

Applies to:

Community action organizations providing two or more services to support the local community and people in need. Chore services/home care assistants provide services to private individuals. See subclassifications 1501-20, 4904-20, and 5308-20 for other community action organization classifications. If the organization provides only chore services, then 6511-00 applies.

Some common terms to describe these types of services include supported living, tenant support, and intensive tenant support services.

Chore services performed by the chore workers/home care assistants of community action organizations include, but are not limited to: