Mealey's (December 12, 2019, 10:23 AM EST) -- BOSTON — Massachusetts regulations that provide overtime pay to au pairs and have tighter restrictions than federal regulations when it comes to room and board reductions are not preempted by the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) “au pair program,” a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 2, affirming a district court’s ruling for the Massachusetts attorney general (Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al., No. 17-2140, 1st Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 35778)....