SB 1344, as introduced, Stone. Domestic work employees.
The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights prohibits a domestic work employee, as defined, who is a personal attendant, as defined, from being employed more than 9 hours in any workday or more than 45 hours in any workweek, unless the employee receives 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 9 hours in any workday and for all hours worked more than 45 hours in the workweek. Those provisions are repealed as of January 1, 2017.
This bill would authorize a domestic work employee who is a live-in employee or who is required to be on duty for 24 or more consecutive hours to enter into a written agreement with the domestic work employer to exclude from hours worked a bona fide regularly scheduled sleeping period of not more than 8 hours for uninterrupted sleep, if specified conditions are met. If the sleeping period is interrupted by an emergency, only time spent working during the emergency would constitute hours worked. Absent a written agreement, the 8 hours available for sleep would constitute hours worked.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1454 of the Labor Code is amended to
2read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insertA domestic work employee who is a personal
4attendant shall not be employed more than nine hours in any
5workday or more than 45 hours in any workweek unless the
6employee receives one and one-half times the employee’s regular
7rate of pay for all hours worked over nine hours in any workday
8and for all hours worked more than 45 hours in the workweek.
9(b) If a domestic work employee is a live-in employee or is
10required to be on duty for 24 or more consecutive hours, the
11domestic work employer and the domestic work employee may
12agree, in writing, to exclude from hours worked a bona
fide
13regularly scheduled sleeping period of not more than eight hours
14for uninterrupted sleep, if the employee has eight hours free of
15duty and available for continuous, uninterrupted sleep and the
16domestic work employer otherwise complies with this section. If
17the sleeping period is interrupted by an emergency, only time spent
18working during the emergency shall constitute hours worked.
19Absent a written agreement, the eight hours available for sleep
20shall constitute hours worked.
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