The Obama administration approved new rules Tuesday that extend minimum wage and overtime pay to nearly 2 million home health care workers.

Low-income workers on union health plans are not eligible for the same federal subsidies available to those who buy insurance in the new state health care marketplaces, the White House said Friday.

President Barack Obama is meeting with union leaders at the White House to discuss labor's growing concerns about the new health care law.

The AFL-CIO approved a resolution critical of parts of President Obama's health care law in spite of efforts by White House officials to discourage the labor federation from making its concerns so prominent.

The AFL-CIO plans to open its membership to more non-union groups in an effort to restore the influence of organized labor as traditional union rolls continue to decline.

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The recent spate of fast-food worker strikes is another sign of the need to raise the minimum wage for all workers, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The rules will require most government contractors to set a goal of having disabled workers make up at least 7 percent of their employees. The benchmark for veterans would be 8 percent.