Councilmember Elissa Silverman

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Today, together with 8 of my colleagues, I introduced the Domestic Worker Employment Rights Amendment Act of 2022. This long overdue legislation would require anyone hiring a domestic worker in D.C. more than five hours a month to provide the worker with a written contract that establishes their hours, pay, duties, and other specifics about the work being performed.The bill also ends the carve out of domestic workers from two important D.C. laws: the D.C. Human Rights Act, which offers protection against workplace discrimination, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which would ensure workplace safety provisions apply to homes in which domestic work is performed.