TESTIMONY
Mbacke Thiam on the Consequences of Regulation Intro 175 for Home Care Workers and Patients with Disabilities in NYC
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Mbacke Thiam, Housing and Health Community Organizer at the Center for the Independence of the Disabled New York, addresses the negative effects of regulation intro 175 on home care workers and patients with disabilities in New York City.
- Intro 175, passed a few years ago, attempted to regulate the working hours of home care workers to a maximum of 12 to 13 hours per day and 40 hours per week.
- The regulation has made it difficult for home care workers to earn a sufficient income, forcing them to work more than the stipulated hours.
- Patients with disabilities are adversely affected as they may require care during unconventional hours not covered by the regulated working hours.
- Thiam asserts the city needs to better consider the needs of its vulnerable residents, including home care workers and patients with disabilities.
Mbacke Thiam
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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Maga Zhang.
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I'm I'm the housing and health community organizer at center for the independence of the disabled New York.
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We are a nonprofit organization that advocate for people with disabilities in the fiber of of New York City.
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And we are the boards of people with disability here in New York City.
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We are our office is located in Manhattan and Queens, but we represent the fiber.
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So I wanted to just shed light on a couple of points about the health care workers and workers who who helped the home care workers.
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So we all know that intro 175 passed a couple of years ago, and it was about trying to regularize the work that people are doing, and they they will give on up to 12 to 13 hours per day and also 40 hours per week.
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So I think it was a way or a nozzle to try to control the the system and aware that they can know how to recognize the the the job that people are doing, also the funding that was coming from the government.
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But trying to do so end up being very complicated for the in for the patient for the patients, but also for the the workers.
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It is very hard to understand that people do this job in order to earn their living.
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So because they're not getting paid well, they have to work 50 hours or sometime more in order to provide to their families.
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So trying to reduce their hours is detrimental.
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It has a detrimental impact on time.
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They also have a detrimental impact on people with disabilities who may need tears at later hours, maybe in the middle of the night.
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Maybe, you know, time when they cannot see their family members to help us them.
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And these home workers can come and assisted them and be able to talk to them and be able to to help them in a way that maybe some family members wouldn't be able to.
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I feel like the city is doing a good job in order to help the communities but we need to always try to think about our consumers.
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We need to always try to think about people who are struggling and how we can try to cater to Zane.
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I will I will submit a written testimony with more detailed point about this issues.
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Thank you.
