“Takin’ Care of Business” at Home: Hiring California Household Help

Seyfarth Synopsis: Have you pondered the implications of hiring help around the house? Here are some legal requirements regarding employment of domestic helpers.

 

Household workers or “domestic helpers” are people who work within a private household or on their employer’s premises. They include cleaners, maids, groundskeepers, dog walkers, cooks, nurses, home masseuses, personal trainers, and nannies, and those holding more unusual jobs like bodyguards, butlers, valets, furnace workers, and crews of private yachts. Their wages and working conditions are subject to the provisions of Wage Order 15 for Household Occupations.

 

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