Domestic Workers Would Get Lunch Breaks, Overtime, Vacation Under Calif. Bill

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Housekeepers and other home care workers would get new benefits, including lunch breaks, overtime and paid sick and vacation time under a bill now under consideration in Sacramento. The bill, AB889, is called the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It’s authored by two Assembly Democrats, Tom Ammiano and V. Manuel Pérez. The California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee …