NJ's domestic workers now must get minimum wage — but someone has to tell them
Only one-fifth of the funding a New Jersey lawmaker sought for the state’s new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights made it into this year’s budget. And advocates worry that’s not nearly enough to ensure house cleaners, at-home caretakers and nannies know they’re now entitled to the state’s minimum wage and other protections.
Democratic state Sen. Britnee Timberlake, one of the bill's key architects, had sought $500,000 for education about and enforcement of the new protections. She said she'll keep fighting for more funding. “It’s very sad,” said Ana Paola Pazmino, director and organizer of Resistencia en Acción, an organization focused on empowering and educating migrant communities in New Jersey.
Timberlake said her “only regret” was that she didn’t name the bill after her late grandmother — Mary L. Whitley, a domestic worker who came from Durham, North Carolina, through the Black Migration into Harlem.
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