According to the report<\/a>, over 2 million Californian households employ 330,000 domestic workers to clean their homes or care for children, elders, people with disabilities, or those with health conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\nAfter analyzing federal data between 2014 and 2023, researchers found that 67,000 of these workers receive less than minimum wage, losing an average of $4,200 every year.<\/p>\n
Spread over ten years, the total stolen wages account for a total of $2.8 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most of the workers are women and people of color, with around half of them identifying as Latina. Around 74% are American citizens, and 45% have attended college, the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those working as house cleaners and childcare providers are more likely to experience wage theft, as are non-citizens and those who do not have a high school diploma.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The report notes that while the median wage for domestic workers increased from $8 in 2014 to $15 in 2023, it remains significantly less than the $25 median wage for all other workers in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cDomestic work is the backbone of California\u2019s care economy,\u201d said Daniel Galvin, one of the report\u2019s authors, in a news release issued Tuesday. \u201cYet because it happens behind closed doors, it remains uniquely vulnerable to exploitation,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sheer scale of the wage theft documented in our report \u2014 $2.8 billion over a decade \u2014 proves that these are not isolated incidents, but rather a systemic failure to protect a workforce that millions of families rely on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report reveals that wage theft is rampant among California\u2019s domestic workers, as 20% of them get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41267,7,9,8,101097,62628,46909,3479,99728,101098],"class_list":["post-221093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-exploitation","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-domestic-workers","tag-income-inequality","tag-labor-rights","tag-minimum-wage","tag-wage-theft","tag-workplace-justice-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}