Nearly eight years after passage of a law granting new rights to domestic workers, the law's effectiveness has been hampered by a lack of awareness among employees and employers and insufficient enforcement resources, a new report concluded.
Nearly eight years after passage of a law granting new rights to domestic workers, the law's effectiveness has been hampered by a lack of awareness among employees and employers and insufficient enforcement resources, a new report concluded.
"Our survey results highlighted two major obstacles hindering the bill's efficacy, the first being a lack of knowledge about the bill and how to report a violation and the second being limited resources to properly enforce it," said Lloyd Hancock, a Boston College law student who co-authored the report."Additionally, the surveys indicated many instances of non-compliance with the bill, which is most likely attributable to the general lack of knowledge.
The workers themselves landed much lower on the income ladder. More than eight in 10 who participated in the survey said they earned less than $40,000 per year, and 47% earned less than $30,000 per year.when she worked with the Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers, recalled that at the time"there were real gaps in [the] understanding of what is care work, the value of it and that people who are doing it should even be paid.
More than three-quarters of Massachusetts workers surveyed had little to no understanding about the protections guaranteed to them under the 2014 law, with 38.6% describing themselves as having"no knowledge" of the law and 38% saying they are"slightly familiar" with it.
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