The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, and Research

Overview: Workers in the Home--Definitions

The removal of the exemption of home care aides from the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Accurate overtime pay would be the principle gain for the workers. December 2011

Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights. New York State

Although their minimum wage is set by federal law, domestic workers' wages and working conditions have been inadequate and unprotected in most other ways, a deficit with its roots in the history of the work of women, especially those of color. The bill of rights described on this state government page became law in November 2010.