Sec. 202. Domestic workers’ benefits study
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The Secretary shall conduct a study, which may be through a contract with another entity, for the purpose of providing information to labor organizations, domestic work hiring entities, and the general public concerning how to increase the number of domestic workers who have access to a secure retirement, affordable health care, unemployment insurance, life insurance, and other common benefits provided to employees of large private and public sector employers. The study conducted under paragraph
(1)shall include a review of each of the following: The levels of access to and usage of common work-related benefits for domestic workers, including retirement savings, health insurance and reduced health care costs, paid sick time, unemployment insurance, disability and life insurance, and paid family and medical leave. Barriers for domestic workers, including home care workers who provide services for a dependent family member, to— participate in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.); obtain disability insurance; participate in the Medicare program established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.); otherwise access affordable health insurance; and access any other benefits described in subparagraph (A). Reforms necessary to increase access to work-related benefits for domestic workers, including how to ensure appropriate funding levels, portability across domestic work hiring entities, and effective strategies and processes for outreach and enrollment. The portability of work-related benefits for domestic workers and the laws, including regulations, preventing innovation and improvement in the portability of such benefits. A comparison of the ability of domestic workers to access, be eligible for, and participate in public and private sector work-related benefits compared to such ability of other workers. Recommendations for ways to ensure domestic workers can access public benefits. Recommendations for innovations that would— ensure domestic workers could— access and use benefits, including the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), the Medicare program established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.), the Medicaid program established under title XIX of that Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), unemployment insurance, any benefits provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ), including the amendments made by that Act, paid family and medical leave, paid sick time, and any additional benefits identified by the Secretary, including such benefits that are portable from job to job; and have contributions for the benefits described in subclause
(I)from multiple hiring entities as applicable; provide adequate levels of such benefits for domestic workers; and enable a domestic worker to have access to such benefits through multiple jobs the worker may have. Not later than 15 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the President and Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection
(a)that includes each of the following: The findings and conclusions of the study, including its findings and conclusions with respect to the matters described in subsection (a)(2). The recommendations for revising the laws, including regulations, which determine eligibility for public and private work-related benefits to increase access to, portability of, and eligibility for such benefits for domestic workers. Other information and recommendations with respect to such benefits for domestic workers as the Secretary considers appropriate.
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- Pub. L. 111-148
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