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A bill aimed at protecting nannies and cleaners by requiring households to comply with safety standards has been proposed in the California Legislature.
A proposed bill in California would require employers of domestic workers to comply with the same safety standards as other workplaces. Sen. María Elena Durazo, who wrote the bill, hopes to protect a part of the workforce made up of mostly women of color.
Domestic workers in California don’t have the same safety protections required by law for many employees in case they get injured or sick on the job.
California households that employ cleaners or nannies could soon be required to comply with safety standards similar to other workplaces under a bill proposed in the state Legislature
In Virginia, lawmakers tried and failed to pass a bill that same year that would have included these workers in an employee protection law.