DE HB258

Remove domestic service workers from the general employee exemption in Chapter 9 (minimum wage), making them eligible for minimum wage protections under Delaware law.

Create Chapter 9A establishing overtime pay requirements for domestic work employees at not less than 1.5 times regular pay for hours exceeding 8 per day or 40 per week.

Define "domestic work" as household services in private homes and specify that domestic work employees include babysitters, nannies, housekeepers, home health aides, gardeners, chauffeurs, and similar positions.

Remove the domestic service worker exemption from Chapter 23 (workers' compensation), making domestic workers eligible for workers' compensation coverage if they otherwise qualify as employees.

Repeal the $750 cash earnings threshold in any 3-month period that previously exempted household and casual workers from workers' compensation requirements.