Au pairs win $65.5m settlement in US lawsuit

ABOUT 100,000 au pairs who travelled to the United States to provide child care for American families could share in a $65.5 million settlement reached on Wednesday, in a lawsuit that said their wages were kept artificially low.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Colorado in 2014 against sponsor agencies that operated the programme under the auspices of the US State Department. It accused the sponsor agencies of conspiring to illegally fix the wages of au pairs below the US minimum wage.