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A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands. The term "domestic service" applies to the equivalent ...
[A.1470B (Wright)/S.2311-E (Savino)] which extended labor protections to domestic workers. The law, otherwise known as the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, went into effect on November 29, 2010 and gives domestic workers, among other provisions: The right to overtime pay at time-and-a-half after 40 hours of work, or 44 hours
With the abolition of slavery in the U.S., Black women were increasingly hired as domestic workers. The history of domestic work in the United States is one of gender, race, citizenship, and class hierarchies. Although domestic work was a paid job, it was not recognized as such by the law or society. Because domestic work is in the private ...
Migrant domestic workers are (according to the International Labour Organization’s Convention No. 189 and the International Organization for Migration) any persons "moving to another country or region to better their material or social conditions and improve the prospect for themselves or their family," [1] engaged in a work relationship performing "in or for a household or households."
Currently, only 10 percent of domestic workers around the world are covered by the same labor laws on issues such as hours, mandatory rest periods and annual leave, and 30 percent aren't covered ...
Pages in category "Domestic work" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amah (occupation)