Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights 美國已5州簽家事業工作者權利法案

A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents tohousekeeping, including cleaning and household maintenance. Other responsibilities may include cooking, laundry and ironing, shopping for food and undertaking other household errands. Such work has always needed to be done but before the Industrial Revolution and the advent of labour saving devices, it was physically much harder.

Robert Reich

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights -- making Oregon the fifth state in five years to include domestic workers in basic labor rights and thereby beginning to reverse 80 years of racist exclusion. Credit to Ai-Jen Poo (pictured below) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, along with its Oregon affiliates. Like the Fight for 15, Black Lives Matter, the movement for equal marriage rights, and Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, we’re seeing repeatedly how visionaries with perseverance are making social change happen.

A Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights took effect in New York State on November 29, 2010. Among other rights, this law gave domestic workers the right to overtime pay, a day of rest every seven days, three paid days of rest each year (after one year of work for the same employer), protection under the state human rights law, and a special cause of action for domestic workers who suffer sexual or racial harassment. In July 2013, Hawaii became the second state to implement basic labor protections for domestic workers.^[1] In January 2014, similar legislation took effect in California.^[2]

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• 1 Background
• 2 New York Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
• 3 Hawaii Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
• 4 California Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
• 5 References

Background[edit]

The National Labor Relations Act was enacted in 1935 by Congress. This law was created to protect the rights of workers in the United States. The act did not cover domestic workers, as well as a number of other employees.^[3] Therefore, a six year grassroots campaign was put into effect until the Governor of New York passed the Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights.^[4]