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The bill extends wage and overtime protections to many babysitters and domestic caregivers—improving pay and accountability—but it also raises costs for households and adds compliance and classification complexity for employers and some care workers.
Low-wage domestic caregiving and babysitting workers gain minimum-wage and overtime protections, increasing earnings and reducing unpaid hours for these workers.
Parents and families who hire sitters benefit from clearer labor standards and greater reliability/accountability of care, reducing exploitation and making paid care more stable.
Defining 'casual basis' limits and clarifies when informal babysitting is excluded (capping incidental household tasks at 20% of babysitting hours), which reduces ambiguity about coverage for employers and workers.
Households that rely on informal or irregular babysitters may face higher costs if those workers become eligible for minimum wage and overtime.
Smaller households or individuals who hire occasional sitters could face greater administrative burden and uncertainty in determining worker status and complying with wage rules.
Excluding some trained medical and home-care personnel from coverage creates complexity and possible confusion distinguishing covered babysitting from excluded care services.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Narrows FLSA exclusions for domestic caregiving work, removes a broad exemption, and defines "babysitting services" and "casual basis" to limit the babysitting carve-out.
Changes who is excluded from federal minimum wage and overtime rules for some in-home and domestic caregiving work. It eliminates one broad exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act and adds narrow definitions for “babysitting services” and “casual basis” work so that only truly irregular, incidental babysitting stays exempt, while many home care and personal care workers become covered by minimum wage and overtime protections.
Introduced March 12, 2026 by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · Last progress March 12, 2026