(NEW YORK CITY) - On International Women’s Day, Homecare Workers took to New York City Hall to pressure Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York City Council to pass the No More 24 Bill, which would abolish the 24-hour workday and force employers to repay $90 million in stolen wages.

The proposal was introduced to the Council in 2024, though it has since sat in the Committee on Civil Service and Labor unaddressed until this past December.

The language of the Bill would limit the total hours an employer can assign to a Worker for one shift to 12 hours - while leaving room for exceptions and emergencies.

Homecare Workers are often assigned to patients who need “around-the-clock care,” resulting in assigned 24-hour shifts without notice or consent from an aide.

Workers are only compensated for 12 to 13 of these hours, the remaining 11 considered “time off” for sleep and meals.

Mostly middle-aged or elderly themselves, these Workers - mostly Women - spend these consecutive hours doing back-breaking physical labor in a high-stress health care environment.

The struggle to end the 24-hour workday is led by the Ain’t I A Woman? Campaign (AIW), Youth Against Sweatshops (YAS  and the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS).

The movement they constitute began its fight more than 10 years ago, with three Home Attendants filing a Class-Action Lawsuit in 2015 which alleged their employer - the Chinese American Planning Council, failed “to pay them under the New York Labor Law: Minimum wages; Overtime wages; Spread-of-hours wages; and Straight time wages, among other claims.

For More On This Labor News Report, Go To: Homecare workers pressure Hochul and Mamdani to end 24-hour workday – People's World

Photo Courtesy Of The Ain’t I A Woman Campaign Via Facebook.