Domestic Workers’ ‘Bill of Rights’ Lacks Council Backing - Montgomery County, Maryland

“Domestic workers in Montgomery County won’t be getting their own “bill of rights” to protect them from relatively low salaries and poor health insurance. That decision will be left to the next County Council elected in November.

Council President George L. Leventhal (D-At Large), who is up for reelection, said this week that no council member would sponsor a bill calling for a minimum wage of $10.50 an hour as well as health insurance, paid sick days and paid holidays for domestic workers, many of them Hispanic women who work as housekeepers or nannies.”

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