Exclusive: First study of its kind finds as many as 340000 house cleaners,homecare and childcare workers could be making below minimum wage One in six employers of domestic workers fails to pay the minimum wage in California, according to unprecedented research on workers who are often left behind when cities and states reform labor laws and raise wages.
In the first study of its kind on an industry that typically avoids scrutiny, and researchers with the University of California Los Angeles Labor Center found that out of two million domestic employers in the state – those who hire people for house cleaning,domestic care support and childcare roughly 17% violate the minimum wage law.
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Source: theguardian.com