This Black History Month, we invite our supporters to look at the beautiful timeline “A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing” created by the National Domestic Workers Alliance in collaboration with activist scholars Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, and Diana Sierra Becerra…
The Brazilian Worker Center conducted a study on the effectiveness of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, carried out in partnership with the Boston College Law School Civil Rights Clinic…
In January, a group of ten domestic workers completed a four-session leadership development course with MCDW, “Learning to be Leaders”…
This January we held a grassroots fundraiser to support the essential peer-to-peer outreach of domestic worker leaders…
As we enter the new year, we are dreaming of justice, respect and dignity for all domestic workers in Massachusetts…
In 2022, MCDW built structures, teams, and programs to create a path towards worker leadership…
In 2023, we hope to continue on our path to worker-led organizing and collective advocacy. One piece of this goal is to raise $5000 in January to support the essential peer-to-peer outreach of Worker Leaders…
Read MoreIs a sleep-in housekeeper entitled to overtime pay under wage-and-hour laws?
A federal judge in New York State recently ruled that such employees may, indeed, be entitled to overtime pay if they don't reside at their employers home. (Ciesielska v. Kadish)
Judge Bianco said that an employee who slept at her employer's premises 5 days a week and at her own residence on weekends may be exempt from the FLSA's overtime restrictions. The court concluded that "to reside denotes both a length of time and action and intention by the resident."
This decision is relevant to many thousands of housekeepers who sleep at their employer's premises during the week and at their own home on the weekends, but do not get overtime pay for working over 40 hours per week.