Josie Huang In California, millions of older adults and people with disabilities get help at home with bathing, eating and cleaning, allowing them to stay in a familiar setting. Demand for these services is expected to only surge over the next decade, as the youngest of the baby boomers enter their 60s and 70s. But…
Josie Huang Clustered in a residential neighborhood in West Hills are six ‘50s-era low-slung houses converted into board and care facilities — part of an industry fast expanding to serve the waves of California baby boomers aging into illness and disability. And it’s where, regulators say, the staff — almost entirely Filipina women — worked…
NPR Nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other San Francisco domestic workers must be given paid sick leave under a groundbreaking law approved by city leaders this week. The city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed the legislation, which the San Francisco Chronicle said is the first of its kind in the U.S. The measure would affect…
Luis Megid Miles de empleadas domésticas en San Francisco, California, podrían recibir el beneficio de ‘baja por enfermedad remunerada’ que tienen otros trabajadores locales. Esto gracias a que la ciudad está a punto de adoptar una ordenanza exigiendo el pago para más de 10,000 trabajadoras. Si la propuesta es aprobada entraría en vigor antes de…