Op-Ed: We Must Crack Down on Companies Exploiting the Pandemic to Cheat Workers
By Lorena Gonzalez and Ruth Silver Taube Lurking in the shadows in any crisis are the unscrupulous characters looking to take advantage of those struggling the most. We’ve been warned of the scammers pretending to be contact tracers to commit identity
The End of Liberal Democracy in the Philippines
By Ethan Chua on August 29, 2020 On July 3 2020, despite waves of popular resistance and incisive legal critique, President Rodrigo Duterte passed an Anti-Terrorism law that would give the executive government sweeping powers to imprison and repress political activists under
PAWIS Workers Push For AB 3075 to Hold Employers Accountable for Paying Wage Theft Judgments
-Ruth Silver Taube and Ethan Chua Wage theft occurs when employers don’t pay workers commensurately for the hours they’ve worked, don’t pay minimum wage, or deny workers overtime pay. In California, employers use wage theft tactics to steal an estimated
Kapehan sa PAWIS: Conversations on the Issues and Concerns of Caregivers
On August 16, PAWIS successfully hosted the online webinar, “Conversations on the Issues and Concerns of Caregivers”. The webinar started with the usual workers rights update in the midst of the pandemic. The webinar then proceeded to talk about the
