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[quote=Anonymous]What’s illuminating is that after a DC Councilman introduced a bill meant to include au pairs in the human rights and labor protection bills, the host families organized not to find out the issues, but to protest and prevent it. See the Kojo Nnamdi show about domestic worker protections (or lack thereof) in DMV — link to full transcript and an excerpt speaking to some of the exchanges on this board included below. The bill is pending in DC (slowed down by Covid).

https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-08-28/d-c-domestic-workers-dont-receive-discrimination-protection

NNAMDI
And did you discover why they are excluded from the D.C. Human Rights Act?
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BROWN
We did not. I mean, the short answer is there is no answer. We had students at UDC's Law Legislative clinic look into this for us. The precursor to the Human Rights Act was passed by Congress before the Home Rule Act established our D.C. Council. And there's no legislative history for it. However, many federal laws have historically excluded both domestic workers and agricultural workers notably two areas of employment that were formally filled by slaves. And so most legal scholars have concluded that, you know, there's a connection between -- it's like a remnant of slavery. That there's a connection between slavery and the exclusion of these workers from discrimination protections and other protections under the law.[/quote]

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