Q&A
Outreach efforts to inform domestic workers of their rights
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Council Member Williams inquires about CCHR's outreach efforts to inform domestic workers of their rights under the human rights law. Deputy Commissioner JoAnn Kamuf Ward details the commission's strategies for reaching domestic workers.
- CCHR organizes events in parks and playgrounds to reach both employers and employees
- The commission participates in resource events at public libraries
- CCHR offers a specific training on domestic worker rights, reaching about 7,000-8,000 people annually
- The commission maintains strong partnerships with domestic worker advocacy groups
Nantasha M. Williams
1:36:30
Okay.
1:36:31
I look forward to getting the answer to those two questions.
1:36:35
Make sure you guys write that down.
1:36:38
Alright.
1:36:40
The next question I have, in your view, are domestic workers generally aware of their rights under the human rights law?
1:36:54
Is CCHR undertaking any specific outreach to those workers to ensure that these protections are known?
1:37:00
Yeah.
1:37:01
That's a good question because I'm like, how do you really reach domestic workers?
1:37:04
Because they're, like, tucked away.
1:37:06
Like, you know, they're not in, like, these big companies, so that is a good question.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:37:09
No.
1:37:09
I mean, I it's it's a good question.
1:37:11
It's a the people who are organized in the domestic worker space, which does not obviously include every domestic worker, are very are very organized.
1:37:21
So I think there's there's actually a really strong pathway to, to reach domestic workers.
1:37:27
I would say our team, and I mentioned the liaison on low wage workers and domestic workers, puts together events that are in parks, in playgrounds, in places where we're gonna catch the employer and, potentially, the employee, to make sure that people know their rights.
1:37:45
I mentioned the Care Standards Board as as well.
1:37:48
But just this week too, there was, a resource event at one of the public libraries talking about these protections.
1:37:56
We have a specific training focused on domestic worker rights that, has, for the past several years, been been offered several 100 times each year, reaching about 8 7 to 8000 people a year.
1:38:10
So I think, I'm sure there are people that are are not captured, but I think we have very strong relationships in that space and and are increasing who we are reaching, in part because of the very strong partnerships with some of the, groups that I mentioned.
