You may have heard the term “domestic workers’ bill of rights” with regard to wage and labor laws surrounding nannies and other household employees. But what exactly does that term mean and how did these laws come about?
As part of the state’s Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights legislation, California Wage Order 15, which had previously exempted personal attendants from overtime pay, was amended to remove this exemption and now requires personal attendants be paid overtime compensation at one and one-half times the employees’ regular rate of pay.
The Montgomery County Sick Leave law requires employers with one or more employees in the Maryland county to provide paid sick and safe leave to covered employees, including domestic workers.
Read about the Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Illinois becomes the seventh state to guarantee wage and human rights protections to domestic workers.
Many states and cities are enacting paid sick leave laws, and now employees working in Los Angeles will be covered under a new Los Angeles sick leave law. Read all the details, including when household employers need to begin complying.
All employers in Chicago need to begin preparing for a new law that affects their employees. The Chicago paid sick leave law, known as the Chicago Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, takes effect in July of 2017.
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