AP News | SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — 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. Domestic workers in California don’t have the same safety protections required by law for many employees in case they get…
NPR | 3-minute listen – California has issued voluntary safety guidelines for employers of domestic service workers. These employees have been historically excluded from basic workplace protections.
KQED | In 2017, about a week after the massive Tubbs wildfire destroyed parts of Santa Rosa, house cleaner Socorro Diaz got a call from one of her clients. They asked her to work at their home, which was still standing next to incinerated buildings in the Fountaingrove neighborhood. When Diaz arrived, she found the…
KQED Public Radio | Listen at minute 3:50 – 7:35 to hear KQED’s Labor Correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero cover breaking news of California’s first ever health and safety occupational guidelines for the domestic worker industry.