300,000 Domestic Workers Provide Critical In-Home Services in California
SACRAMENTO – Earlier this week, the California State Assembly passed legislation that would permanently preserve overtime protections for California’s privately hired domestic workers. SB 1015 now advances to Governor Brown for his consideration.
Authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino), SB 1015 would continue the success from AB 241 (2013)—which granted overtime protections to California’s privately hired domestic workers—by removing the initial 2017 sunset provision and extending the law’s provisions permanently.
Over 300,000 domestic workers serve as housekeepers, nannies, and caregivers in private homes in California. These individuals—which include primarily immigrant women—oftentimes provide for their own families as the primary income earner and continue to contribute greatly to the economic and social wellbeing of families and communities across the Golden State. Without the hard work of domestic workers, many Californians would be forced to forgo their own jobs to address their household needs. Despite the importance of their work, domestic workers have historically received wages well below the poverty level and were excluded from some of the most fundamental labor protections that other California workers enjoy.
“SB 1015 would permanently extend these important overtime protections that domestic workers in California already receive as a result of Governor Brown signing AB 241,” Senator Leyva said. “These hardworking women and men sometimes travel many hours to and from work and are away from their own families because they work as privately hired domestic workers in another family’s home. Domestic workers in California assist countless individuals, families and communities across the state and deserve to continue receiving a fair wage with overtime for their day-to-day hard work. I thank my Assembly colleagues for standing with domestic workers as they fight to keep this important labor protection that they first received in 2013.”
SB 1015 is sponsored by the California Domestic Workers Coalition and supported by over 100 community, labor, education and legal rights organizations
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SB 1015 eliminates the section that would end AB 241 giving Domestic workers labor protections. SB 1015 also eliminates appropriations of money to agencies requesting reimbursement under the impact section of AB 241. ECT, investigate and report the agencies who are taking advantage of this loophole.
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