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Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.

Most APs won’t benefit from this bill. By the time it goes into effect, current APs will most likely be home already.

Basically, if it passes as is (currently says nothing about APs as the Mr. Todd admits they did not think about them), it will take a lawsuit to make a determination on whether APs should be included, just like in Mass. That in itself will take a year or more even AFTER the legislation passes which apparently may not even be until late 2020 or early 2021. The other option is it gets edited in committee to exempt or out-rightly include au pairs in the definition of "domestic worker." So then it either won't apply to au pairs OR it will, but again it may not pass until late next year or early next.

So this really does not impact any APs currently here. So if you ask yours to help in this effort, make sure you help him/her realize that (Cultural Care sent the notice to their Au Pairs too which makes it very confusing for them). It basically this boils down to, do you think people like you should have the opportunity to come to DC to be an Au Pair? Did you find the program effective and enjoyable? Can you speak about your experience being positive? Because if APs start costing more than live-in nannies, they will be nonexistent in this city. Or they will be used for such limited hours that they will not end up making any more money than they did prior. It will simply cut down the number of AP host families. The nannies and domestic worker lobby groups WANT THIS- they are the groups that further the exploitation narrative because it will only benefit NANNIES who already make well above minimum wage in DC. I've never heard of a nanny making less than $18 an hour. They see this as a way to stomp out competition and further raise rates for nannies.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.

Most APs won’t benefit from this bill. By the time it goes into effect, current APs will most likely be home already.

Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that Brandon Todd was the original sponsor of the bill, but now it is in the committee headed by Elissa Silverman. So essentially, she and everyone else on that committee should be the main targets. Allen, Grosso, McDuffie, White-- these are the people that have the power to change what is in it now. He's only now just another vote on the council when it comes up in its final form after committee changes. Engagement with him would've been better at the outset, apparently this bill first appeared in September?

Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.

Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.

Anonymous wrote:It’s very important for au pairs to come to see what kind of protections they can ask for. Right now they have none. If they report anything to their agency, they’ll just sent home if they don’t quickly find another match.