Thursday, September 12, 2013
Bend the Arc was among the organizations mobilizing support in California on behalf of legislation requiring overtime pay for domestic employees, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Californians who hire a nanny, a cook, a maid or other domestic employees would be required to pay them overtime wages under a landmark bill that awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature. The California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, proposed by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would make the state the first in the nation to mandate time-and-a-half pay for home-based employees who work more than 9 hours a day or 45 hours a week...