California Domestic Workers Coalition

Reports and Infographics on the Domestic Worker Industry

Unprotected on the Job: How Exclusion from Safety and Health Laws Harms California Domestic Workers

Since its creation in 1973, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Act has excluded an entire class of workers—those employed in private households as nannies, housecleaners, home health aides, and home attendants. This report documents the human cost of their exclusion at a time when COVID-19 and ecological disaster compound typical workplace hazards. Based on a…

A Roadmap for Strategic Enforcement: Complaints and Compliance with San Francisco’s Minimum Wage

The San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) was established in 2001 as the first municipal labor standards enforcement agency in the country. As cities across the U.S. look to San Francisco as a model for labor standards enforcement, researchers with the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) at Rutgers University chose to study San Francisco’s minimum wage enforcement…