A GUIDE TO DEVELOPING A WORK AGREEMENT WITH A CHILDCARE PROVIDER IN NEW YORK Are you planning to hire someone to provide childcare services in your home? Do you already employ someone to provide childcare services and want to improve your employment arrangements? If so, this guide will help you: focus your initial discussions with the
Overview of laws applying to domestic workers and employers in New York
This downloadable fact sheet provides general information about state and city laws that protect domestic workers in New York hired directly by private households. It is not intended to provide legal advice. The document links directly to government websites that provide comprehensive information about these laws. Please note: domestic employers are strongly encouraged to provide
Domestic Employer Obligations Under New York City Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law
As of September 30, 2020, New York City’s Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law was updated, increasing leave for domestic workers from 2 days to 5 days. The updated law states: Domestic workers accrue safe and sick leave at the rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 40
Center for Family Life
Center for Family Life, a program of SCO Family of Services, is a neighborhood-based family and social services organization with deep roots in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. https://sco.org/featured-programs/center-for-family-life/
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Damayan empowers low-wage workers to fight for their labor, health, gender, and immigrant rights. Established in 2002, our purpose is to build leadership at the grassroots level to eliminate labor trafficking, fight labor fraud and wage theft, and to demand fair labor standards to achieve economic and social justice. http://www.damayanmigrants.org
Make the Road New York
Make the Road by Walking New York provides survival services, transformative education, and engages in community organizing and policy innovation.
Maple Street School
The Maple Street School is a preschool that inspires children through play and discovery, values a diverse community, and relies on the active participation of cooperative-member families and teachers to thrive. http://www.maplestreetschool.org
Carroll Gardens Association
Our mission is to foster a community where residents and families of all income levels in Southwest Brooklyn’s neighborhoods can live, work, and thrive. Carroll Gardens Association, Inc. fulfills this mission by preserving and developing affordable housing, enforcing quality housing management practices, promoting small business economic development, and providing and linking residents to social services
Adhikaar
Adhikaar, meaning rights, is a New York-based nonprofit organizing Nepali-speaking community to promote human rights and social justice for all. http://www.adhikaar.org
