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Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Respecting Women With Equal Pay for Equal Work

Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Child Care, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Lilly Ledbetter, Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Living Wage, STEM Education, Barack Obama, Equal Pay, Equal Pay Day, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

As the nation marks Equal Pay Day -- the average date into 2013 women must work to make what men earned in 2012 -- we must recommit ourselves to closing the wage gap. Americans must be about respecting women in deeds, not just in words.

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Kathleen Miles

Domestic Workers Take To The Streets To Demand Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.07.2013 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES -- Over a hundred domestic workers and their supporters banged on pots and pans in front of the state building in downtown LA Thursday to ...

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These Workers Aren't Protected By Labor Laws

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.11.2013 | Business
Read More: Video, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Domestic-Labor, Domestic Work, Labor Laws, International Labor Organization, Business News, Domestic Workers, Business News

GENEVA — At least 52.6 million people worldwide are employed as domestic workers, most of them women vulnerable to abuse and without adequate le...

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Sarah Bufkin

Jerry Brown Kills Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Sarah Bufkin | Posted 12.07.2012 | Politics
Read More: Video, Live-in Caregivers, California, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Governor Jerry Brown, Labor Rights, Domestic Workers California, Jerry Brown, Domestic Workers, Domestic Workers Rights, Caregivers, Politics News

At 1 a.m., Patricia Aceberos drags herself out of bed to give a round of medication to her patient. Four hours later, the Fremont, Calif., caregiver i...

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Protecting Our Protectors

Michael Kaufman | Posted 09.27.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Domestic Workers, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, California Domestic Workers, Governor Brown, Los Angeles News
Michael Kaufman

California law actually provides fewer protections in the domestic work industry than most other areas of employment. The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights would level the playing field and make life safer and healthier for domestic workers.

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'Noble Endeavor' For Nannies Struck Down

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 10.01.2012 | Los Angeles
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday announced that he had vetoed legislation that would have provided overtime pay, meal breaks and other...

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Have You Heard Of New York's Nanny Law?

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN and JULIE WATSON | Posted 11.28.2012 | New York
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Allison Julien worked for more than two decades as a nanny in New York, toiling 50 to 60 hours a week without overtime pay until ...

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WATCH: Amy Poehler Speaks Out For Our Most Vulnerable Population

Sarah Medina | Posted 08.27.2012 | San Francisco
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Legendary comedian and activist Amy Poehler released a short video in support of a new state bill that would implement increased protections for domes...

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Being a Nanny in a Post-Bill of Rights State

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Caribbean Nannies, Caribbean Domestic Workers, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Labor, Wages, Business News
Arlene M. Roberts

The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights ushered in a new era for nannies and house-keepers in New York. Or did it? It has been almost a year and a half si...

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'The Help' Brings Domestic Workers Wage Campaign To Spotlight

Posted 02.27.2012 | Impact
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For the millions of domestic workers who leave their families behind for jobs that don't even pay minimum wage, Octavia Spencer's Oscar win was a boon...

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#BeTheHelp on Oscar Night

Gayle Kirshenbaum | Posted 04.24.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Oscars 2012, The Help Movie, Octavia Spencer, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, The Help, Academy Awards, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Association, Domestic Workers, Viola Davis, The Oscars, La Impact, Bethehelp, Los Angeles News
Gayle Kirshenbaum

This year, there will be Oscar parties where The Help's Aibileen and Minny won't be the only domestic workers in starring roles.

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Rebecca Carroll

'The Help' And The Lives Of Today's Nannies

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 10.19.2011 | Black Voices
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The high-profile success of the movie "The Help" has thrust nannies into the center of the American conversation, while projecting the notion that tak...

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Workers' Rights: The Big Picture

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Amy Traub

Adapted from authors' remarks at the Urban Justice Center Human Rights Luncheon, February 3 2011 You don't have to work at a think tank to realize t...

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Hooray for Albany? State Legislature Acts to Boost Working People and the Economy

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Workplace Protections, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, New York State Senate, Prevailing Wage, Wage Theft, New York News, Wage Theft Prevention Act, New York State Assembly, New York News
Amy Traub

Griping about Albany is always in style. But in the end-of-session frenzy, state legislators are also taking far more positive action on raising workplace standards.

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About Time: New York's Domestic Workers May Finally Get Rights on the Job

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New York State Senate, Domestic Workers United, Housekeepers, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Workplace, Nannies, Labor Rights, Domestic Workers, Diane Savino, New York News
Amy Traub

Is scrubbing somebody else's floor "work"? How about staying up all night -- every night -- with another person's colicky baby? Or helping their elderly mother shower and use the bathroom?

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The Nanny Diaries: A Caribbean Version

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Arlene M. Roberts

There are more than 200,000 women in New York working as nannies, companions and housekeepers, whose lives are typified by long hours, meagre wages, drudgery, and worse.

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