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…
Lila Seidman San Francisco has had a law on its books mandating sick pay for employees since 2006. But the city’s estimated 10,000 domestic workers — who include house cleaners, nannies and caregivers — have had a hard time taking advantage of the benefit, forcing them to work through injury or forego caring for an…