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Workers, lawmakers, and coalition partners shared how the Bill of Rights will improve conditions for over 100,000 house cleaners, gardeners, nannies, and home care workers across Washington:
Fair Work Center, on behalf of workers, to argue before Washington Supreme Court that exclusions from minimum wage rights for live-in care workers are unconstitutional.
In a major victory for low-wage workers, the Washington state Senate passed the statewide Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (SB 5023), taking Washington a significant step closer to ending the exclusions that shut domestic workers out of the right to minimum wage, sick time, breaks, and other basic labor standards.
Seattle’s historic minimum wage law is set to finally take full effect on January 1, 2025. Ten years after the law passed, the city’s minimum wage will reach $20.76, without any special subminimum wage rate for tipped workers. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell also released his statement today, saying, "Seattle has one of the highest minimum wages in the country – this is a good thing for workers, a good thing for our overall economy, and something we should take pride in." Workers are reacting to the city's long-awaited minimum wage increase.
