Justice for Domestic Workers

Justice for Domestic Workers

The landmark labor reforms of the New Deal in the 1930s left a few categories of workers out of basic labor protections. In 2013, we worked to fix that.

The landmark labor reforms of the New Deal in the 1930s left a few categories of workers out of basic labor protections. In 2013, we worked to fix that.

Following a multiple year campaign in partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, we helped pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in California in 2013, which extended the basic labor protection of overtime pay to 200,000 domestic workers in the state.

We also mobilized American Jews to support new Department of Labor regulations extending basic labor protections to homecare workers.