It would mean that friends of mine who work in saunas or parlors would be entitled to decent hours, sick pay, and other basic labor rights that other workers take for granted".
This environment breeds a sense of instability perpetuated by agencies who act as employers but refuse to take responsibility for basic labor rights, such as timely payment, health insurance, and protection from sexually abusive clients.
The union, comprised of teaching assistants and adjunct professors, was protesting its low wages, and asking for better health benefits and other basic labor rights.
The summer program is the country's largest guest-worker program because it is essentially unregulated and its workers are supercheap and lacking basic labor rights.
Specifically, union leaders want the United States to be able to bring trade sanctions if a trading partner does not enforce its labor laws, like a minimum wage, or basic labor rights, like the right to form a union.
The California Legislature is considering a bill to extend basic labor rights to domestic workers: the nannies, cooks, baby sitters and other caregivers whose labor allows households to function smoothly, thus contributing to the larger economy.
"These trends appear to be increasing over the past decade," the report said, "with large numbers of employees misclassified and therefore unprotected by the most basic labor rights".
Cardinal Roger Mahony wrote, "While we gladly accept their taxes and sweat, we do not acknowledge or uphold their basic labor rights".
[C4.] U.N. Agency Regains Some Stature The International Labor Organization, the United Nations agency that works to promote basic labor rights, has recently gained some renewed prominence.
Employees who have historically been denied basic labor rights — domestic workers and home health aides — need to finally be given the protection of wage-and-hour laws.
