Nevada’s domestic and home care workers won big increases in minimum wages a few years ago, bringing their base pay to $16 an hour.
They’re now seeking $20 an hour with state lawmakers.
But based on a new report from Rutgers and Northwestern universities, many of them will never collect that hourly wage, even if it’s the law.
The report says that over the last 20 years, employers — many times these are unregistered businesses or even homes where people work as cleaners or caretakers — the estimated theft from minimum wage workers amounts to more than $2 billion.
Guests: Janice Fine, director, Workplace Justice Lab, Rutgers; Bliss Requa Trautz, executive director, Arriba; Regina Brown Ross, homecare worker, SEIU
