The deal, filed in Denver federal court Wednesday, covers nearly 100,000 people, mainly women, who came to the United States to work as au pairs between Jan. 1, 2009, and Oct. 28, 2018. Lawyers who have been representing the au pairs in the class-action case for free over the past four years expect to ask a judge for 35 percent of the
Au pairing began in 1987 in the United States and today it is the top destination for au pairs (Macdonald, 2011; Cox, 2015). At any given time, 12,000–14,000 au pairs reside in the United States (Cox, 2015; Macdonald, 2011; Jordon, 2014). Au pairs migrate tothe United States from the followingtopexporting Latin American