WGBH reports an agency that places foreign au pairs with US families says it will no longer place au pairs in Massachusetts now that federal courts have upheld a state law requiring they be paid at least the state minimum wage. It's a different agency than the one an au pair recently sued for back wages.
An au pair who worked in Middlesex County is seeking at least $10 million for herself and roughly 500 other au pairs in a suit against the California concern that brought them to Massachusetts, now that a federal court has upheld the legality of a Massachusetts law that requires au pairs earn at least the state minimum wage. Read more.
A federal appeals court today dismissed a lawsuit by a private agency that places au pairs in Massachusetts - and two families that have used its services - against the state Attorney General's office, which had determined their clients should have to pay foreign au pairs at least the state minimum wage of $12 an hour, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Read more.
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