Lines of Inquiry 1:
Different organization's that help promote workers right
Different organization's that help promote workers right
1. FLA (Fair Labor Organization)
Since 1999, FLA has helped improve the lives of millions of workers around the world. As a hardworking effort of socially responsible companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations, FLA creates lasting solutions to refuse abusive labor practices by offering tools and resources to companies, delivering training theories to factory workers and management, conducting due diligence through independent assessments, and advocating for greater accountability and transparency from companies, manufacturers, factories and others involved in global supply chains.
2.ILRF (International Labor Rights Forum)
The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) is a nonprofit organization that is based in Washington, D.C., U.S., that describes itself as "an advocate for and with the working poor around the world." ILRF, formerly the "International Labor Rights Education & Research Fund," was founded in 1986, and the organization's mission statement reads: "ILRF believes that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests. ILRF works to develop practical and effective tools to assist workers in winning enforcement of protections for their basic rights, and hold labor rights violators accountable."
WHAT DID THEY DO?
1.They hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains 2.They advance policies and laws that protect workers. 3.They strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their rights.
ILRF works with trade unions and community groups to support workers and their families. They lead on initiatives such as making apparel factories safe in Bangladesh; stopping the exploitation of children in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan; increasing the income of farm workers in the cocoa fields of West Africa; developing labor law clinics in China; and supporting threatened union leaders in Latin America’s banana sector.
3.OSHA(Occupational safety health and administration)
Osha helps protect workers rights when they announced to ensure healthy working conditions for men and women. By asking permission from the government to allow the company to promote and protect workers rights, assisting and encouraging the states in their efforts to ensure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health. Until now their organization helps protect the rights of workers and they're doing a great job.
Osha helps protect workers rights when they announced to ensure healthy working conditions for men and women. By asking permission from the government to allow the company to promote and protect workers rights, assisting and encouraging the states in their efforts to ensure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health. Until now their organization helps protect the rights of workers and they're doing a great job.
4. U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, created in 1957 by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The Division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice
5.National Labor Relations Act
The National Labor Relations Act made a law for workers in 1935 to make sure protections for workers and employers and to encourage collective bargaining.
But the act explicitly excluded certain types of workers from those collective bargaining rights including agricultural laborers, many domestic workers, and independent contractors meaning those groups cannot organize with the same protections.
http://omegahrsolutions.com/2017/03/your-nonunion-employees-are-still-protected-by-the-national-labor-relations-act.html
6.Merit System Protection Board
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent agency that was founded in 1979 to protect federal merit systems against a group of political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure enough or maybe more protection for employees against abuses by agency management.
https://ezgovopps.com/home/merit-systems-protection-board/
7.Ministry of Labor Of Indonesia
The Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Indonesia or Kemennaker (formerly the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, abbreviated Kemennakertrans) is the Indonesian government ministry in charge of labor affairs. The Ministry of Labor is under and responsible to the President. [1] The Ministry of Labor is headed by a Minister of Labor (Mennaker) since October 27, 2014 held by Hanif Dhakiri. It was also first introduced in Indonesia in the 1940s. The minimum wage in DKI Jakarta is Rp 1,500,000-3,000,000, and this rule has been approved and made by our current governor Bapak Basuki.
The Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Indonesia or Kemennaker (formerly the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, abbreviated Kemennakertrans) is the Indonesian government ministry in charge of labor affairs. The Ministry of Labor is under and responsible to the President. [1] The Ministry of Labor is headed by a Minister of Labor (Mennaker) since October 27, 2014 held by Hanif Dhakiri. It was also first introduced in Indonesia in the 1940s. The minimum wage in DKI Jakarta is Rp 1,500,000-3,000,000, and this rule has been approved and made by our current governor Bapak Basuki.
LINES Of inquiry 2:
Ways to Protect Workers' Rights
1) Get it in writing
Law does not usually need you to have a contract with your boss. But it is a good idea to work out the details of your work in a written contract before you start work. When you sign an employment contract, you should make sure that you agree with everything in it, like keeping a copy for yourself in case you have an argument with your employer in the future
2)OSHA
OSHA helps protect workers rights when they announced to ensure healthy working conditions for men and women. By asking permission from the government to allow the company to promote and protect workers rights, assisting and encouraging the states in their efforts to ensure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health. Until now their organization helps protect the rights of workers and they're doing a great job.
3)Merit System Protection Board
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent agency that was founded in 1979 to protect federal merit systems against a group of political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure enough or maybe more protection for employees against abuses by agency management.
4.) U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
The Division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin. They also made sure there is no discrimination in their work place.
5.)FLA (Fair Labor Association)
FLA creates lasting solutions to refuse abusive labor practices by offering tools and resources to companies, delivering training theories to factory workers and management, conducting due diligence through independent assessments, and advocating for greater accountability and transparency from companies, manufacturers, factories and others involved in global supply chains.
6.) The right of workers
Many workers do not realize that they may be entitled to several workplace rights. Depending upon where you live, the kind of job you have and the size of your employer, the rights of workers where you are employed may include:
- The right to a safe work environment, free from undue dangers
- The right to a degree of privacy in your personal matters
- The right not to be discriminated against on grounds of your age, race, national origin, gender, ethnicity, pregnancy, religion, or disability
- In some states and places, the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other characteristics
- The right to fair pay, meaning at least a minimum wage, plus overtime for any hours worked over 40 hours a week or, in some places, over 8 hours a day
- The right to a workplace environment with no harassment
- The right to take time from work to tend to your own, or a family member's, illness.
- The right to take leave following the birth of a child