Washington, D.C. has joined 10 states and two major cities in enacting domestic worker protections. The major components of the district’s Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights include a requirement for work agreements in household employment and an extension of human rights as well as occupational health and safety protections for household employees.
Under the Paid Leave for All Workers Act, household employers in Illinois will be required to provide up to 40 hours of paid leave during a designated 12-month period beginning in 2024.
Here are several important paid family and medical leave updates that impact household employers for 2023.
Household employers should continue using the current version of Form I-9 even after its expiration date of Oct. 31, 2022. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the current Form I-9 should be used until further notice.
Pay transparency laws are popping up across the country. Household employers should be attentive to this trend as pay transparency may affect how they post their job openings and how they talk about pay and pay history during the hiring process. Here’s what families with household help need to know.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ended its COVID-19 Temporary Policy for List B Identity Documents. That means if your employee presented an expired List B document between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2022, you are required to update their Form I-9 by July 31.
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