This week, Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal are planning to introduce the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act. If it passes into law, the bill could codify the workplace protections and standards that women of color in the industry have spent years organizing around; Harris’s camp says the bill’s impact would reach 2.5 million domestic workers, including nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers.
Act. If it passes into law, the bill could codify the workplace protections and standards that women of color in the industry have spent years organizing around; Harris’s camp says the bill’s impact would reach 2.5 million domestic workers, including nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers.
Domestic workers have historically been excluded from federal labor laws—although that is changing in some states and cities, like, where lawmakers are fighting to secure benefits like minimum wage and paid time off for domestic workers. Still, a national bill of rights would be an unprecedented win for domestic workers and their families.
, “No one understands the future of work better than domestic workers. As the gig economy has grown over the last 30 years, more and more professions look like theirs.” It’s true; a study from researched as Harvard and Princeton University shows thatof U.S. workers in 2015 took part in “alternative work arrangements,” like temp jobs or work that classifies them as independent contractors or freelancers.
This shift is not new, and it’s bigger than the gig economy; companies like Uber and TaskRabbit “actually make up a small share of the contingent workforce,” Politicoin 2018. Increasingly, a lot of jobs in the U.S. will be subject to conditions that domestic workers have long been familiar with: irregular hours, low pay, lack of benefits, and no protections from effectively being fired without very much notice at all.
So to see the fight for domestic workers’ rights reach Congress should be inspiring to workers across the country, who may be seeing their own industries tightening. As Politico, “The scale of the change, for many economists, clearly suggests that it’s time for Congress to rethink the social contract around work, updating it for the new relationship between employers and workers in the 21st century.” This bill is a good first step towards that.
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