In Illinois, Governor Bruce Rauner has signed into law a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which grants domestic workers protections under the state’s labor statutes, including minimum wage, overtime and time off. Domestic workers are not covered by state or federal labor laws, though some states have similar bills. Wendy Pollack of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law said, “This is really historic because the exclusion of domestic workers from federal and state employment laws has an unfortunate history in slavery and anti-immigrant sentiment.”