REMARKS
Debate on DCWP's role in worker protection
0:08:21
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45 sec
Commissioner Carlos Ortiz elaborates on his perspective regarding the scope of worker protection and DCWP's role. He emphasizes the importance of defining the boundaries of worker protection to ensure the agency focuses on its core competencies.
- Discussion on the potentially broad interpretation of 'worker protection'
- Example of situations that may seem to fall under worker protection but are addressed by other mechanisms
- Emphasis on leveraging DCWP's expertise and capacity for enforcing specific workplace laws
Carlos Ortiz
0:08:21
Well, I think, you know, for me, I've always, in my role, tried to make sure that I'm able to also help define for folks the scope of what worker protection means, because I think it could be a very, it could be a very nebulous kind of concept that if you think about it.
0:08:35
I I have certainly myself, and I don't mean this facetiously have received complaints from folks.
0:08:40
A person came off the street, assaulted one of my workers, what can you do for me?
0:08:43
And you could see how worker protection in that context makes sense for a constituent, but in reality, we know that there their mechanisms that address that type of assault.
0:08:52
So for me, I I think I wanna make sure that we're guiding people to the right direction.
0:08:56
I wanna make sure that we're leveraging the expertise and capacity that we have now to really focus on the work that we can provide, that we should be providing in in the performance laws that I mentioned.
