How We Make our Rights Real: Strategies for Enforcement in California

Languages: English, Spanish, Nepali, Tibetan
Room: 354

In the last decade, domestic workers have made huge gains winning state and municipal bill of rights campaigns. But along with winning new rights and laws, our movement has innovated ways to ensure those new rights and laws are enforced. In 2019 the California Domestic Workers Coalition won funding in the state budget to create an Education and Outreach Program for domestic workers and employers within the California Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement. This first-of-its-kind program will address the unique barriers to enforcement that domestic workers face by collaborating with community based organizations to provide education, outreach, and training to both domestic workers and employers in order to increase awareness of and compliance with existing labor protections. In this workshop, learn about how domestic workers in California were able to win this new program, and what’s next for enforcement work in California!