San Francisco adopts paid leave benefits for domestic workers

Nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other San Francisco domestic workers must be given paid sick leave under a groundbreaking law approved by city leaders this week, the Associated Press reports. The city’s Board of Supervisors on Dec. 14 unanimously passed the legislation, which would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care for seniors or disabled residents.