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CCHR's outreach and education efforts with SBS and MOPD
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JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Deputy Commissioner for Policy and External Affairs at CCHR, discusses the commission's outreach and education efforts in collaboration with SBS and MOPD. She emphasizes the strong relationships between these agencies and their joint efforts to inform businesses about changes in human rights law and accessibility requirements.
- CCHR attends SBS task force meetings and BID meetings to share updates on human rights law changes
- The agencies collaborate on developing fact sheets and conducting joint training sessions for small businesses
- CCHR and SBS teams conduct neighborhood outreach to very small businesses, providing information on services and legal requirements
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:01:53
Yeah, so I'll start on that one.
1:01:56
I think we have a very strong relationship with both SBS and MOPD.
1:02:02
As I mentioned, when the law changes, the human rights law, we're looking at potentially new obligations for businesses as employers if they have four or more employees.
1:02:13
Or if public accommodations protections change, that's a different set of obligations for businesses.
1:02:20
So we have historically gone to SBS task force meetings as well as to other bid meetings on a regularized basis so we can identify these are changes to the human rights law.
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You should be aware.
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Pay transparency being one good example.
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And we have a fact sheet that we developed for small business owners in particular, understanding, as everyone has raised today, these folks don't necessarily have an HR department.
1:02:49
They are not able to necessarily stay up to date with all of the changes to the human rights law.
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So we try and work very closely to get the word out to small businesses.
1:03:00
And I think SBS has already mentioned the Business Expo and other places where we do joint training.
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We also our teams go out into neighborhoods to reach very, very small businesses, right?
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One person businesses to say, we are small business services.
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This is what we offer.
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We're the city human rights law.
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Here's what you're required to do under our law.
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A poster that you're probably required to post.
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So to try and make it as easy as possible for New York's smallest businesses.