Attorney General Rob Bonta touted California’s legacy of farmworker union organizing — and his own connections to the farmworkers’ rights movement — during a virtual event Monday honoring the legacy of Cesar Chavez.
to continue Chavez’s legacy and improve the lives and working conditions of agricultural workers around the state.The UC Merced study published in January surveyed more than 1,200 farmworkers around the state about their health, access to medical care, housing and working conditions — with particularly sobering insights intostudy found
that 43% of farmworkers said their employers never provided written heat illness prevention plans, while 36% said they would be unwilling to file a report against their employer for noncompliance with workplace health and safety rules. Edward Flores, one of the study authors, told Bonta the state should be investing more resources for enforcement and oversight of state worker protection laws, as well as bolstering incentives for employers to comply with existing law.
Bonta echoed support for one of Flores’s suggestions in particular — that his department could help identify “good” employers based on their history of compliance with worker safety laws. This could make it easier for state agencies to direct funding such as the Community Economic Resilience Fund grants.“We can direct guidance to those folks so they can know what their legal obligations are, so they can know the Department of Justice is watching.
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