10:09 am ET
Jun 2, 2010


State Senate Passes Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

    • Domestic Servant Bill of rights.

      When they answer my add are they not coming to me on the guise that they are in business for themselves. If so the burden for all the tax's, workers comp, liability and costs associated with being in business for oneself falls squarely on your shoulders .

      As for severance pay what happens when the domestic worker decides to show up when they want to. Now their on vacation and I'm punished for not tolerating their poor work ethics . Here's a good one how long will it take for someone to figure out they can hire on for a month screw up and get 14 days pay.

      Also does this 14 day mean 2 week's. Domestic workers usually work 1 maybe 2 days a week for about 4-6 hours each day. So if it is fourteen days that's actually 3.5 months pay. Why should I be paying someone 14 days work when it would take 3.5 months to accumulate if they had to work for it..

      Then the lawsuits when an employee sues his boss it is usually for two reasons money or money, but
      discrimination That's a very wide door for an attorney to walk through.
      When I need someone to take care of gran-pa chances are that person will be Filipino. It's as though this type of work is their calling and they are very good at it. Due to this they seem to dominate this market. Why would I hire anyone else just because they fit into a particular group.

      When I am out there selling my talents there is no law that makes is mandatory they have to hire me because I'm white,black or Asian. They hire me because I'm qualified. I can see the courts filling up with more frivolous law suits based on race,ones false sense of self worth, gender or sexual leaning.
      What lawsuits should be founded in is a physical wrong doing. Not something that starts out having to be framed by interpretation.Then being ruled on by people that truly cannot measure the damages. So once again we have to rely on interpretation.

      I truly believe that before people frame these bills they need look at the whole picture and the effects that can occur if abused.

      A little side note. I know a couple that needed to hire a care taker for their parent. When all was said and done this person made a neat $80,000.00 cash annually. Later through the grapevine they found out that the person was utilizing section eight housing. This being said I believe that if they want to regulate something they may want to look into all the state and federal monies lost due to the practice of these type of workers being paid cash under the table and where the money goes..

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