Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a broad federal bill of rights for domestic workers by extending overtime protections, requiring written agreements and workplace standards, protecting against retaliation and discrimination, establishing enforcement and support infrastructure, adjusting Medicaid financing for affected services, and authorizing appropriations.
Who Benefits and How
Domestic workers could gain overtime coverage, leave, scheduling and privacy rights, written employment terms, stronger anti-retaliation and discrimination protections, access to enforcement support, and more stable funding for certain Medicaid-funded care work.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Household employers, on-demand platforms, and government-funded programs using domestic labor would face new labor standards, enforcement exposure, paperwork, scheduling, leave, and compliance obligations, while federal and state agencies would need to implement new rules, grants, studies, and coordination structures.
Key Provisions
- Repeals the live-in domestic worker overtime exemption and creates live-in notice, communication, and termination protections.
- Establishes a domestic-worker labor-rights subtitle covering written agreements, sick time, scheduling, privacy, breaks, wage deductions, anti-retaliation, and enforcement.
- Extends Title VII coverage, creates a standards board, studies, notices, task force, hotline, grants, Medicaid transition rules and temporary FMAP relief, and authorizes appropriations.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a broad federal bill of rights for domestic workers by extending overtime protections, requiring written agreements and workplace standards, protecting against retaliation and discrimination, establishing enforcement and support infrastructure, adjusting Medicaid financing for affected services, and authorizing appropriations.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Civil Rights, Government Administration, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a broad federal bill of rights for domestic workers by extending overtime protections, requiring written agreements and workplace standards, protecting against retaliation and discrimination, establishing enforcement and support infrastructure, adjusting Medicaid financing for affected services, and authorizing appropriations.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Domestic workers gaining federal labor, civil rights, enforcement, and support protections
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Domestic service employers and government agencies implementing the new domestic worker rights and compliance framework
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMrs. Gillibrand (for herself, Mr. Luján, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Fetterman, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Domestic service employers required to provide multilingual written employment agreements, Domestic workers and representatives able to enforce subtitle rights through federal investigations and civil actions, Domestic workers gaining earned paid sick time and safe-time rights
Positive-direction: Domestic workers and representatives able to enforce subtitle rights through federal investigations and civil actions, Domestic workers gaining earned paid sick time and safe-time rights, Domestic workers gaining enforceable meal and rest break protections, Domestic workers gaining federal civil rights discrimination protections, Domestic workers needing temporary schedule flexibility for caregiving or urgent personal events, Domestic workers protected from retaliation for asserting workplace rights, Domestic workers protected from unfair wage deductions and communication-related penalties, Domestic workers receiving more predictable schedules and cancellation pay protections, Domestic workers receiving written employment terms and documentation, Domestic workers retaining stronger state, local, contractual, and collective bargaining protections, Domestic workers who can use the hotline to seek assistance, Eligible community organizations receiving domestic worker outreach and enforcement grants, Eligible entities able to operate a national domestic worker assistance hotline, Live-in domestic employees able to recover severance pay and damages for violations, Live-in domestic employees newly covered by federal overtime rules, Live-in domestic employees receiving notice, housing, severance, and communication protections
Negative-direction: Domestic service employers required to provide multilingual written employment agreements, Employers of live-in domestic employees subject to overtime obligations, Employers required to handle requests for temporary scheduling changes, Household employers brought into Title VII coverage for domestic worker employment
Department of Labor officials responsible for implementing the domestic worker protections through rulemaking, Federal agencies participating in the domestic worker enforcement task force, Federal budget financing the temporary Medicaid matching-rate increase
Positive-direction: States receiving higher federal Medicaid matching funds for covered domestic-worker services
Negative-direction: Department of Labor officials responsible for implementing the domestic worker protections through rulemaking, Federal agencies participating in the domestic worker enforcement task force, Federal budget financing the temporary Medicaid matching-rate increase, Federal budget supporting implementation of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act, Federal labor officials conducting the domestic worker benefits study
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
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