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Governor Newsom, stand on the right side of history!
It’s time to protect ALL workers.

Everyone deserves a safe workplace!

Over 2 million homes across California depend on the essential care provided by more than 300,000 domestic workers – yet they remain without health and safety protections in the workplace.

For too long, the workers we entrust to care for our loved ones and our homes have been marginalized and dehumanized by intentional exclusion from our worker protection laws. These exclusions are a remnant of our country’s ugly past and blatant discrimination against Black and women workers that continue on in our state’s labor code today.

As a result, domestic workers are regularly exposed to health and safety threats. These include exposure to toxic products, heavy lifting leading to muscle tears, sprains, back  injuries and other long-term chronic conditions such as asthma, coughing, vision impairment impacts on the reproductive system, and more.

It is long past time for California to rectify this historical wrong and provide dignity and safety to hundreds of thousands of California domestic workers.

The Health and Safety for All Workers Act, SB 686 (Durazo)

SB 686 will ensure that all workers have a safe workplace!

SB 686 builds on the work of SB 321, which California domestic workers advocated for and won in 2021 and which convened an Advisory Committee of domestic workers, employers, and occupational health and safety experts with Cal/OSHA to create the first ever health and safety guidelines for the domestic work industry that were published earlier this year.

These voluntary health and safety guidelines address the occupational risks and hazards domestic workers face every day, but do not go far enough to ensure protections for workers.

SB 686 seeks to implement the policy recommendations made by the committee which includes ending the household domestic services exclusion from California labor code. This would give Cal/OSHA the authority needed to implement health and safety protections for the in-home workforce.

National and State Leaders

Co-Sponsors

California Employment Lawyers Association
California Immigrant Policy Center
Equal Rights Advocates
Worksafe

Domestic Worker Leaders

Chinese Progressive Association 
Dolores Street Community Services 
El Centro Cultural De Mexico, Santa Ana 
Filipino Advocates for Justice 
Filipino Community Center
Filipino Migrant Center 
Institute of Popular Education of Southern California  
Mujeres Unidas Y Activas
People’s Association of Workers and Immigrants East Bay  
Pilipino Association of Workers and Immigrants South bay
Pilipino Workers Center
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center 
Raizes Colectiva

Organized Labor & Worker Centers

California Work & Family Coalition
Clean Carwash Worker Center 
Day Worker Center of Mountain View 
Jobs With Justice – North bay
Jobs With Justice -San Francisco 
North Bay Labor Council 
San Francisco Living Wage Coalition 
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles  
Trabajadores Unidos Workers United 
Warehouse Worker Resource Center

Community Empowerment Organizations

Bet Tzedek Legal Services 
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation 
Caminante Cultural Foundation 
First Mennonite Church of San Francisco 
Motivating Our Students Through Experience 
Or Shalom Jewish Community 
South of Market Community Action Network 
US Academy for Training and Job Placement for Immigrant Community Services Center
Visión Y Compromiso 

National and State Organizations

National Women’s Political Caucus of California
National Domestic Workers Alliance  
National Employment Law Project 
National Union of Healthcare Workers
California Legislative Women’s Caucus
California Labor Federation 
SEIU California 
Caring Across Generations   
Stronger California
California Immigrant Policy Center 
Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights, Los Angeles
Working Partnership USA  

Racial and Gender Justice Organizations

AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund 
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action 
Asian Pacific Environmental Network 
Bay Rising 
Black Women for Wellness
Californians for A Healthy and Green Economy 
Catalyst Project 
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities 
Gabriela Oakland 
Grace Institute – End Child Poverty in Ca
El/La Para Trans Latinas 
Multicultural Institute
Showing Up for Racial Justice – Bay Area 
Women’s Voices for The Earth 

Health Organizations and Academic Institutions

Breast Cancer Prevention Partners 
California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley 
Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program, UCLA 
Network Impact Sport Philanthropy 
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles Southern

Disability and Aging Justice Organizations

California Commission on Aging 
Disability Rights California 
Grey Panthers 
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
Senior & Disability Action

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