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[quote=Anonymous]SB 804, without an exemption, will lump au pairs together with other domestic workers and place them firmly under state regulation AND federal regulation. This is the current state of affairs in Massachusetts.

Thus, there was a push to add an exemption for au pairs, as they are ALREADY regulated under federal law. This was firmly rebuffed by the bill’s sponsor, Senator McClellan. The argument was that the exemption would go in SB7, which raises minimum wage.

So, today there is no exemption for au pairs in 804. If SB7, which DOES have the exemption, is killed, all that is left is bringing au pairs under state regulation through 804.

This was likely the plan all along - the out of state dark money funding this probably was betting that Virginia would have difficulty passing minimum wage increases. So they insisted that Jennifer McClellan NOT allow 804 to be amended, but instead allow it to be placed in the minimum wage bill, SB7. That is exactly what happen. Now she is threatening to kill SB7 based on a $1 an hour wage difference across regions in Virginia several years in the future. Sounds more like an excuse to kill a bill that has an exemption for the program the people paid her $300,000 to kill.

Once again, I don’t know ANYBODY who thinks domestic workers should not be paid a minimum wage, or that the minimum wage should not be increased. The real problem is using the Virginia legislature to kill a competing program with dark money. A program that is federally regulated. That is the problem.

SB7 and its companion HB395 are in conference today. We will see what happens.  It’s up to the NoVa representatives in the conference to keep the exemption for au pairs in place, and the rest of the NoVa delegation to support such a bill out of conference.[/quote]

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