(The Center Square) – Virginia lawmakers passed two bills extending overtime pay protections to live-in domestic workers, a group previously excluded from wage laws.
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(The Center Square) – Virginia lawmakers passed two bills extending overtime pay protections to live-in domestic workers, a group previously excluded from wage laws.
The bills, now awaiting Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s signature, would close gaps in Virginia’s labor protections.
The bills require employers to compensate live-in domestic workers for overtime hours and would outline enforcement measures for any wage disputes. The bills, if signed into law, would amend a part of the Code of Virginia and align state wage laws with existing labor protections.
In2021,domesticworkerswereincludedinVirginia’sDomesticWorkersBillofRights,whichallowedthemworkplacehealthandsafetyprotectionsandcoveredthemundertheVirginiaOvertimeWageAct.
However,soonafter,VirginiarealizeditsovertimelawswiththefederalFairLaborStandardsActin2022,whichleftlive-indomesticworkersexcluded.Inshort,SB897andHB2469restoretheselostprotections.
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