Domestic workers in Rhode Island will now be paid the minimum wage under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Daniel McKee. Traditionally, domestic workers haven’t been given that protection as the Rhode Island minimum wage has increased because under state law, they weren’t considered employees.
FILE - The sun shines on the Rhode Island Statehouse, Nov. 10, 2004, in Providence, R.I. Gov. McKee has signed into law a bill requiring workers in domestic service to be paid Rhode Island ’s minimum wage . Traditionally, domestic workers haven’t been given that protection in Rhode Island because under the state’s minimum wage law, they weren’t considered employees. Domestic workers in Rhode Island will now be paid the state’s minimum wage under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov.
The new law eliminates that exception, specifically removing a provision that classifies “any individual employed in domestic service or in or about a private home” as not an employee for the purposes of Rhode Island’s minimum wage laws.Before the new law, domestic workers in Rhode Island had only been guaranteed the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
“There’s no reason some workers shouldn’t have minimum wage protections just because they work in households,” said Senator Dawn Euer, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. “This bill extends a very basic protection to some of our most essential workers while removing one of the most puzzling statutes in Rhode Island law.
A 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute, found that in the United States the vast majority of domestic workers — more than 90 percent — are women; just over half are Black, Hispanic, or Asian American and Pacific Islander women; and they tend to be older than other workers.In Massachusetts, domestic workers have the same rights as other workers to minimum wage, overtime, and other wage and hour protections.
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