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I feel like that’s good because you shouldn’t keep quiet about stuff that shouldn’t be going on at work. … You have to speak up.’[/pullquote]“From what I’ve heard, there’s a lot more people speaking up now,” said Romero, who is now 18 and working as a grocery store cashier. “I feel like that’s good because you shouldn’t keep quiet about stuff that shouldn’t be going on at work. … You have to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero told KQED she observed colleagues as young as 13 working late into the night, almost to midnight, which interfered with their learning at school. Romero spoke publicly about other workplace violations, too, alleging she and other minors experienced sexual harassment by managers who made crude jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following her allegations, Romero said her hours were cut, and she left the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the child labor violations, Department of Labor investigators found that 14th Street Chicken shortchanged workers by not paying them overtime earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors outside of a Popeyes restaurant.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast food workers with the Fight for 15 campaign protest outside of a Popeyes franchisee accused of child labor violations on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency recovered nearly $80,000 in unpaid wages and damages for 15 employees, most of whom have received restitution, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Department of Labor is determined to fight child labor violations in all sectors, including the fast-food industry,” Wage and Hour Division Assistant District Director Alberto Raymond said in a statement. “Child labor laws protect minors and help ensure young workers enjoy positive workplace experiences without jeopardizing their education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11950487 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/14347603604_566e1a3546_o-1020x713.jpg']This is the third time the department has cited the Oakland-based Popeyes franchisee for breaking labor laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Popeyes said the brand “takes issues like this very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the allegations made in early 2023 by team members at a restaurant owned by one of our franchisees, we immediately shut down the restaurant to conduct a swift investigation and to remediate the issues that were identified,” said the spokesperson in a statement. “We’ve been staying close with this franchisee, and to our knowledge there have been no further violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employer paid additional penalties totaling $4,300 for citations last year by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) and the Labor Commissioner’s Office, according to a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees both agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the Department of Labor assessed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data/child-labor\">$8 million in penalties\u003c/a> to employers after finding 5,800 kids employed in violation of child labor laws in 2023, a nearly 50% increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was updated to include statements by Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. and the California Department of Industrial Relations, which were provided after the story published on Feb. 8.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A fast food cashier alerted authorities about Popeyes coworkers as young as 13 working in Oakland, Newark and Tracy. 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I feel like that’s good because you shouldn’t keep quiet about stuff that shouldn’t be going on at work. … You have to speak up.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Johmara Romero, former cashier, Popeyes in Oakland","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“From what I’ve heard, there’s a lot more people speaking up now,” said Romero, who is now 18 and working as a grocery store cashier. “I feel like that’s good because you shouldn’t keep quiet about stuff that shouldn’t be going on at work. … You have to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero told KQED she observed colleagues as young as 13 working late into the night, almost to midnight, which interfered with their learning at school. Romero spoke publicly about other workplace violations, too, alleging she and other minors experienced sexual harassment by managers who made crude jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following her allegations, Romero said her hours were cut, and she left the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the child labor violations, Department of Labor investigators found that 14th Street Chicken shortchanged workers by not paying them overtime earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors outside of a Popeyes restaurant.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_7574-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast food workers with the Fight for 15 campaign protest outside of a Popeyes franchisee accused of child labor violations on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency recovered nearly $80,000 in unpaid wages and damages for 15 employees, most of whom have received restitution, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Department of Labor is determined to fight child labor violations in all sectors, including the fast-food industry,” Wage and Hour Division Assistant District Director Alberto Raymond said in a statement. “Child labor laws protect minors and help ensure young workers enjoy positive workplace experiences without jeopardizing their education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11950487","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/14347603604_566e1a3546_o-1020x713.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This is the third time the department has cited the Oakland-based Popeyes franchisee for breaking labor laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Popeyes said the brand “takes issues like this very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the allegations made in early 2023 by team members at a restaurant owned by one of our franchisees, we immediately shut down the restaurant to conduct a swift investigation and to remediate the issues that were identified,” said the spokesperson in a statement. “We’ve been staying close with this franchisee, and to our knowledge there have been no further violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employer paid additional penalties totaling $4,300 for citations last year by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) and the Labor Commissioner’s Office, according to a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees both agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the Department of Labor assessed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data/child-labor\">$8 million in penalties\u003c/a> to employers after finding 5,800 kids employed in violation of child labor laws in 2023, a nearly 50% increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was updated to include statements by Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. and the California Department of Industrial Relations, which were provided after the story published on Feb. 8.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero at a Friday press conference in Delano. “Elidio had two young daughters who now don’t have a father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case shines a spotlight on the effectiveness of a California law designed to protect workers laboring outdoors in searing temperatures — and it took center stage at a press conference called by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla to push federal legislation that would impose stronger federal heat protections in workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said the 59-year-old father of two, whose full name is Elidio Hernández Gómez, reported feeling ill to his supervisor but did not receive help. After he collapsed, his supervisor and coworkers did not report the incident, she said, but his coworkers were told to take him to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National weather services reported temperatures in the Fresno area around 100 degrees on Aug. 8. A coroner’s report said he was pronounced dead at 1:44 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report says Hernández Gómez’s death was due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which is when cholesterol plaque builds up in arteries, obstructing blood flow.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Teresa Romero, president, United Farm Workers\"]‘Elidio Hernández should not have died. Elidio had two young daughters who now don’t have a father.’[/pullquote]There was no evidence showing whether heat played a role in his death, said Tony Botti, spokesperson for the Fresno County Coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero did not disclose the names of the employer or the workers. CalMatters has been unable to identify Hernández Gómez’s employer or to speak to his family members or coworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said the union and the United Farmworkers Foundation are assisting the family but family members fear retaliation. Hernández Gómez’s sister-in-law, Ana Navarro, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article278374474.html\">told the \u003cem>Fresno Bee\u003c/em>\u003c/a> the family is still searching for answers and just wants to “know what really happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Hernández Gómez’s relatives have organized a GoFundMe page to raise money to send his body back to his native Guanajuato in Mexico. The page says Hernández Gómez died from a heart attack caused by working in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staffer at the Fresno district office of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health told CalMatters Thursday the office has not received a report of the farmworker’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA asked UFW officials for information about the incident Friday, Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA statement said the agency is “gathering facts to determine whether to conduct an inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement places a spotlight on California because it is one of the few states with an outdoor heat standard that is supposed to protect farmworkers. The state often is cited as an example by lawmakers pushing for tougher federal workplace standards — although California still does not have heat rules for indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men and women some in business attire, many in red T-shirts, sit around a large group of tables discussing a serious matter as many wear solemn faces. They're inside a conference room that has many framed pictures on the walls and a fireplace is pictured in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla during a roundtable discussion with local organizers and farmworkers in Delano, Kern County, on Aug. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any state investigation into Hernández Gómez’s death could also test two new initiatives Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration recently touted as tools for protecting workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is the recent establishment of temporary regional offices by Cal/OSHA, announced on Aug. 10, in several parts of the state — including Fresno — where there has been increased demand for services from workers and advocates seeking responses to complaints, accidents and requests for proactive high-heat inspections.[aside label='More on California Farmworkers' tag='farmworkers']The other state tool involves administrative actions to protect immigrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California labor department officials earlier this year said they have begun supporting undocumented workers’ requests for “prosecutorial discretion” or “deferred action” from federal immigration officials so that undocumented workers would not be deported or detained if the workers are involved in state labor investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office took it a step further in July, announcing plans to refer and pay for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/farmworker-labor-california/\">immigration legal services\u003c/a> for undocumented workers assisting the state with labor investigations, whether as victims or witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 112 federal lawmakers recently signed a \u003ca href=\"https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/congressional-letter-to-biden-administration-on-extreme-heat.pdf\">letter (PDF)\u003c/a> pushing President Joe Biden to take administrative actions to better protect workers from too-hot workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla also recently cosponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-introduces-legislation-to-protect-workers-from-extreme-heat/\">Asunción Valdivia Heat, Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act\u003c/a>, which refers to a California farmworker who died of heat illness in 2004. The subsequent deaths of several other farmworkers the following year led to California adopting such outdoor heat standards as requiring employers to provide water and shade breaks for workers and emergency response and transportation for workers sickened by heat.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Teresa Romero, president, United Farm Workers\"]‘The law on the books is not the same as the law in the fields.’[/pullquote]The bill recently went to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It has 18 cosponsors in the Senate and 35 in the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said California’s outdoor heat standard has saved lives, but employers have to know there will be legal consequences if they don’t take action when their employees show signs of heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law on the books is not the same as the law in the fields,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"US Sen. Alex Padilla and the United Farm Workers union say a recent death in a tomatillo field was due to heat, but a coroner’s report doesn’t back that up.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692734565,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":989},"headData":{"title":"A Farmworker Death in California Heat Has UFW, Padilla Urging Major Changes | KQED","description":"US Sen. Alex Padilla and the United Farm Workers union say a recent death in a tomatillo field was due to heat, but a coroner’s report doesn’t back that up.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Farmworker Death in California Heat Has UFW, Padilla Urging Major Changes","datePublished":"2023-08-22T20:02:45.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-22T20:02:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/nicole-foy/\">Nicole Foy\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958764/farmworker-death-california-heat-ufw-padilla-urging-major-changes-protections","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero at a Friday press conference in Delano. “Elidio had two young daughters who now don’t have a father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case shines a spotlight on the effectiveness of a California law designed to protect workers laboring outdoors in searing temperatures — and it took center stage at a press conference called by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla to push federal legislation that would impose stronger federal heat protections in workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said the 59-year-old father of two, whose full name is Elidio Hernández Gómez, reported feeling ill to his supervisor but did not receive help. After he collapsed, his supervisor and coworkers did not report the incident, she said, but his coworkers were told to take him to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National weather services reported temperatures in the Fresno area around 100 degrees on Aug. 8. A coroner’s report said he was pronounced dead at 1:44 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report says Hernández Gómez’s death was due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which is when cholesterol plaque builds up in arteries, obstructing blood flow.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Elidio Hernández should not have died. Elidio had two young daughters who now don’t have a father.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Teresa Romero, president, United Farm Workers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There was no evidence showing whether heat played a role in his death, said Tony Botti, spokesperson for the Fresno County Coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero did not disclose the names of the employer or the workers. CalMatters has been unable to identify Hernández Gómez’s employer or to speak to his family members or coworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said the union and the United Farmworkers Foundation are assisting the family but family members fear retaliation. Hernández Gómez’s sister-in-law, Ana Navarro, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article278374474.html\">told the \u003cem>Fresno Bee\u003c/em>\u003c/a> the family is still searching for answers and just wants to “know what really happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Hernández Gómez’s relatives have organized a GoFundMe page to raise money to send his body back to his native Guanajuato in Mexico. The page says Hernández Gómez died from a heart attack caused by working in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staffer at the Fresno district office of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health told CalMatters Thursday the office has not received a report of the farmworker’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA asked UFW officials for information about the incident Friday, Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA statement said the agency is “gathering facts to determine whether to conduct an inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement places a spotlight on California because it is one of the few states with an outdoor heat standard that is supposed to protect farmworkers. The state often is cited as an example by lawmakers pushing for tougher federal workplace standards — although California still does not have heat rules for indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958775\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men and women some in business attire, many in red T-shirts, sit around a large group of tables discussing a serious matter as many wear solemn faces. They're inside a conference room that has many framed pictures on the walls and a fireplace is pictured in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/CMFarmworkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla during a roundtable discussion with local organizers and farmworkers in Delano, Kern County, on Aug. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any state investigation into Hernández Gómez’s death could also test two new initiatives Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration recently touted as tools for protecting workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is the recent establishment of temporary regional offices by Cal/OSHA, announced on Aug. 10, in several parts of the state — including Fresno — where there has been increased demand for services from workers and advocates seeking responses to complaints, accidents and requests for proactive high-heat inspections.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Farmworkers ","tag":"farmworkers"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The other state tool involves administrative actions to protect immigrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California labor department officials earlier this year said they have begun supporting undocumented workers’ requests for “prosecutorial discretion” or “deferred action” from federal immigration officials so that undocumented workers would not be deported or detained if the workers are involved in state labor investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office took it a step further in July, announcing plans to refer and pay for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/farmworker-labor-california/\">immigration legal services\u003c/a> for undocumented workers assisting the state with labor investigations, whether as victims or witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 112 federal lawmakers recently signed a \u003ca href=\"https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/congressional-letter-to-biden-administration-on-extreme-heat.pdf\">letter (PDF)\u003c/a> pushing President Joe Biden to take administrative actions to better protect workers from too-hot workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla also recently cosponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-introduces-legislation-to-protect-workers-from-extreme-heat/\">Asunción Valdivia Heat, Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act\u003c/a>, which refers to a California farmworker who died of heat illness in 2004. The subsequent deaths of several other farmworkers the following year led to California adopting such outdoor heat standards as requiring employers to provide water and shade breaks for workers and emergency response and transportation for workers sickened by heat.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The law on the books is not the same as the law in the fields.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Teresa Romero, president, United Farm Workers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill recently went to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It has 18 cosponsors in the Senate and 35 in the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said California’s outdoor heat standard has saved lives, but employers have to know there will be legal consequences if they don’t take action when their employees show signs of heat illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law on the books is not the same as the law in the fields,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958764/farmworker-death-california-heat-ufw-padilla-urging-major-changes-protections","authors":["byline_news_11958764"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19112","news_18538","news_32371","news_29593","news_5043","news_31570","news_32372","news_31551","news_1602"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11958774","label":"news_18481"},"news_11956922":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956922","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956922","score":null,"sort":[1690894865000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hot-workplaces-have-a-hidden-cost-20000-job-injuries-a-year-in-california","title":"Hot Workplaces Have a Hidden Cost: 20,000 Job Injuries a Year in California","publishDate":1690894865,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Hot Workplaces Have a Hidden Cost: 20,000 Job Injuries a Year in California | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With more heat waves expected this summer, California officials are trying to assess the long-term economic impact on workers and businesses — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956715/democratic-lawmakers-push-for-national-heat-related-worker-protections-amid-scorching-temperatures\">and what more can be done to protect workers bearing the brunt of extreme temperatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">California is one of the few states with heat standards protecting outdoor workers\u003c/a>, advocates and workers say enforcement is still a struggle. Meanwhile the state has been trying for years to create indoor workplace heat rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2021 study of California worker compensation data by a left-leaning economic research nonprofit shows hot days lead to increased workplace accidents across California. The \u003ca href=\"https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/temperature-workplace-safety-and-labor-market-inequality/\">Washington Center for Equitable Growth study\u003c/a> estimates hot temperatures have caused at least 360,000 workplace injuries in California from 2001 to 2018, or about 20,000 injuries a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers examined California workers compensation data and tracked daily temperatures down to the zip code. They compared the number of worker injuries and illnesses on 85-to-105-degree days to days when temperatures hovered around 60 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Advisory-Committee/\">advisory committee\u003c/a> is set to use this data as a roadmap to tackle hot workplace issues. The group of state agency staffers and scholars will examine persistent problems with underreported heat-related illness and injuries, as well as gaps in data collection and the financial toll on workers and businesses when temperatures rise and production falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Young workers at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A day above 100 degrees can lead to a 10–15% increase in same-day injuries on the job, the study says, with injuries hitting low-wage workers hardest. And recovering from a heat-related injury or illness costs the average worker $35,000, including health care and long-term wage impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This implies that the welfare impacts associated with heat-related workplace injuries may be on the order of $525 million to $875 million per year in California alone,” the study authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study says workplace injuries include incidents not usually linked to heat, such as falling from heights, getting struck by a vehicle or mishandling dangerous machinery. Research links high temperatures to reduced cognitive performance and decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead author of the study, University of Pennsylvania professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/person/r-jisung-park/\">R. Jisung Park\u003c/a>, is a member of the advisory committee. He and his coauthors found that low-wage workers, especially young men, face the greatest risks of heat injuries, even in mostly indoor workplaces like restaurants or warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s advisory committee met for the first time at the end of June. Its mandate is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Climate-Resilience/2022-Final-Extreme-Heat-Action-Plan.pdf\">package of heat-related\u003c/a> legislation passed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom in September \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/09/as-record-heat-wave-continues-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-protect-californians-from-extreme-heat/\">signed several bills\u003c/a> creating the first \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-09/newsom-signs-bills-california-extreme-heat-warning-system\">extreme heat warning and ranking system\u003c/a> in the nation, directing the California Department of Public Health to study the impact of extreme heat on pregnant workers and encouraging local governments to invest in protections against extreme heat and other climate effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain sectors that are going to be heavily influenced of course, including food production,” said Daniel Sumner, an advisory committee member who is an agricultural and labor economist at UC Davis. “I think we’d be remiss not to try to think through impacts that directly affect workers’ lower productivity, raise danger for workers, and as a consequence raise food prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are California workers protected from heat?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is one of a few states with laws that mandate employers provide water breaks, shade and rest for outdoor workers once temperatures reach certain levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state implemented its outdoor heat standard in 2005, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/ucdavis/protecting-californias-farmworkers-as-temperatures-climb/#:~:text=California%20passed%20the%20nation's%20most,water%2C%20shade%20and%20rest%20breaks.\">several farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> —\u003c/strong> three in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-03-me-farmworkers3-story.html\">Kern County\u003c/a> and one in Fresno County — died due to heat exposure. After the 2008 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/farm-workers-rights-pregnant-17-year-old-death-2008-maria-isavel-vasquez-jimenez/40950637#:~:text=Mar%C3%ADa%20was%2017%20years%20old,when%20tragedy%20struck%20the%20family.\">death of a pregnant \u003c/a>teen working in a Central Valley vineyard\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>drew national outrage, state officials frantically tried to strengthen and enforce the heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11886628 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg']The Washington Center study found occupational heat-related injuries in California declined by about 30% since the standards took effect in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There still are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1185766013/farm-workers-extreme-heat-protection-farmers-safety\">no heat-related federal workplace protections\u003c/a>, even for outdoor workers, although the Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced two years ago it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185623467/the-federal-government-wants-to-protect-people-who-work-outdoors-from-wildfire-s\">developing heat rules\u003c/a> for outdoor and indoor workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s currently little relief for California’s indoor workers. The state has been considering proposals for heat rules for employees in indoor settings like restaurants or warehouses for nearly seven years, missing a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1167\">2019 deadline\u003c/a> the Legislature set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a 24-year-old United Parcel Service driver died after collapsing from the heat during deliveries in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 340,000-strong union representing the UPS workers has been seeking heat rules that would cover its California members. The union reached a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Teamsters/status/1683867683845021697?s=20\">historic\u003c/a>” contract agreement with the company July 25 after threatening a strike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b3z8/teamsters-ups-union-wins-historic-contract-avoids-gigantic-strike\">securing a deal\u003c/a> with higher wages and more heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jassy Grewal, a lobbyist for the United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council and a member of the state’s heat advisory committee, said workers in high-intensity environments, or those who don’t have a cool place at home, are especially vulnerable without indoor heat rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of pressures from employers, like work quotas, contribute to heat-related illness,” Grewal asked during\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first committee meeting. “And how does the intensity of work and how physically demanding it is relate to the impact of heat exposure while at work and while not at work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gaps in job protections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unions and worker advocates have sued the state in the past to enforce heat-related regulations, and they say the state needs to hold employers accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups warn that despite progress, the greatest risk to workers lies with the state’s troubled enforcement record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts say it’s as simple as better outreach, informing workers about heat risks and their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all implementation and ensuring that these workers actually get the benefits of these laws,” said Michael Méndez, environmental policy professor at UC Irvine, “and having a culturally and linguistically appropriate messaging on the risk and severity of these heat waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='heat']“I think for any population it’s confusing to understand how our climate is changing and how much risk they could have. So ensuring that we have trusted messengers and doing it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate way matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Farm Workers sued the Cal/OSHA in 2012\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to compel the state to enforce heat rules for farmworkers. In 2015 the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cal-osha-farm-workers-20150612-story.html\">settled\u003c/a> a suit the union brought on behalf of five farmworkers who alleged Cal/OSHA was systematically neglecting its duty to enforce the 2005 law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UFW spokesperson Antonio de Loera-Brust told CalMatters “people died to win” California’s enforcement standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect state agencies to be out in full strength across California to make sure employers are being compliant with the state heat rules,” De Loera-Brust said. “Heat is still a deadly hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmworker health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A February \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/02/farmworkers-conditions-california-report/\">study on California farmworker health\u003c/a> and safety by the \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/\">UC Merced Community and Labor Center\u003c/a> found that only a third of farm laborers could recognize the symptoms of a heat-related illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only half of the roughly 1,500 farmworkers surveyed said their employers always provide shade mandated by California law when it hits 80 degrees, while a quarter said their employers never or rarely provide the required shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/farmworker-health-study/farmworker-health-study-data-dashboard\">study\u003c/a>, which surveyed farmworkers in six languages, also found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About 22% of farmworkers said their employer “never” monitors for heat illness. A slightly higher percentage in the Imperial Valley, where scorching temperatures are common, said the same.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>82% of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley said they have received heat-related illness training.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>About 43% of farmworkers statewide, including two-thirds of Central Coast farmworkers, said their employers never had a written heat illness protection plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some farm employers still don’t comply with state rules about providing water, shade and rest, the survey shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>55% of farmworkers across the state said their employers always monitored the temperature on hot days — 76% said it in the Imperial Valley, but 46% did in Napa Valley and Sonoma areas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>75% of farmworkers said their employers provide clean drinking water every time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barely half of farmworkers reported their employers always provide a 10-minute cool down rest, while 21% said their employers “never” did.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/content/alice-berliner\">Alice Berliner\u003c/a>, worker health and safety program director at the community and labor center, said it’s clear some workers aren’t getting safety information or training in Spanish when they need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know heat-related deaths are going up,” she said. “If we want to prevent future deaths from happening, we really need to ensure workers are protected at work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials taking preventive measures, such as conducting heat sweeps ahead of heat waves, has helped, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the state committee do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/robert-rivas-1980/\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, who authored legislation creating the advisory committee last year, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Advisory-Committee/\">panel of 13\u003c/a> a “solid first step.” He said he will work with the Legislature to do more for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is accelerating, and extreme heat and heat-related illnesses are on the rise,” the Salinas Democrat said in a statement. “California is committed to protecting workers’ health and quality of life during extreme heat waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite near-universal consensus among state officials and advocates that heat reform work is urgent, and despite recent record shattering temperatures, the committee has been given a 2026 deadline to report results to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is set to meet quarterly. The next session is September 19. Members indicated they’ll likely commission a study to guide the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no doubt the work this committee will do will save lives,” said Cal/OSHA chief Jeff Killip at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Just 1 day above 100 degrees can cause 15% more workplace accidents, according to a study. A new advisory panel may help California improve its heat-related work rules.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690912114,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1740},"headData":{"title":"Hot Workplaces Have a Hidden Cost: 20,000 Job Injuries a Year in California | KQED","description":"Just 1 day above 100 degrees can cause 15% more workplace accidents, according to a study. A new advisory panel may help California improve its heat-related work rules.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Hot Workplaces Have a Hidden Cost: 20,000 Job Injuries a Year in California","datePublished":"2023-08-01T13:01:05.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-01T17:48:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"Nicole Foy","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956922/hot-workplaces-have-a-hidden-cost-20000-job-injuries-a-year-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With more heat waves expected this summer, California officials are trying to assess the long-term economic impact on workers and businesses — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956715/democratic-lawmakers-push-for-national-heat-related-worker-protections-amid-scorching-temperatures\">and what more can be done to protect workers bearing the brunt of extreme temperatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">California is one of the few states with heat standards protecting outdoor workers\u003c/a>, advocates and workers say enforcement is still a struggle. Meanwhile the state has been trying for years to create indoor workplace heat rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2021 study of California worker compensation data by a left-leaning economic research nonprofit shows hot days lead to increased workplace accidents across California. The \u003ca href=\"https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/temperature-workplace-safety-and-labor-market-inequality/\">Washington Center for Equitable Growth study\u003c/a> estimates hot temperatures have caused at least 360,000 workplace injuries in California from 2001 to 2018, or about 20,000 injuries a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers examined California workers compensation data and tracked daily temperatures down to the zip code. They compared the number of worker injuries and illnesses on 85-to-105-degree days to days when temperatures hovered around 60 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Advisory-Committee/\">advisory committee\u003c/a> is set to use this data as a roadmap to tackle hot workplace issues. The group of state agency staffers and scholars will examine persistent problems with underreported heat-related illness and injuries, as well as gaps in data collection and the financial toll on workers and businesses when temperatures rise and production falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Young workers at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A day above 100 degrees can lead to a 10–15% increase in same-day injuries on the job, the study says, with injuries hitting low-wage workers hardest. And recovering from a heat-related injury or illness costs the average worker $35,000, including health care and long-term wage impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This implies that the welfare impacts associated with heat-related workplace injuries may be on the order of $525 million to $875 million per year in California alone,” the study authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study says workplace injuries include incidents not usually linked to heat, such as falling from heights, getting struck by a vehicle or mishandling dangerous machinery. Research links high temperatures to reduced cognitive performance and decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead author of the study, University of Pennsylvania professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/person/r-jisung-park/\">R. Jisung Park\u003c/a>, is a member of the advisory committee. He and his coauthors found that low-wage workers, especially young men, face the greatest risks of heat injuries, even in mostly indoor workplaces like restaurants or warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s advisory committee met for the first time at the end of June. Its mandate is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Climate-Resilience/2022-Final-Extreme-Heat-Action-Plan.pdf\">package of heat-related\u003c/a> legislation passed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom in September \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/09/as-record-heat-wave-continues-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-protect-californians-from-extreme-heat/\">signed several bills\u003c/a> creating the first \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-09/newsom-signs-bills-california-extreme-heat-warning-system\">extreme heat warning and ranking system\u003c/a> in the nation, directing the California Department of Public Health to study the impact of extreme heat on pregnant workers and encouraging local governments to invest in protections against extreme heat and other climate effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain sectors that are going to be heavily influenced of course, including food production,” said Daniel Sumner, an advisory committee member who is an agricultural and labor economist at UC Davis. “I think we’d be remiss not to try to think through impacts that directly affect workers’ lower productivity, raise danger for workers, and as a consequence raise food prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are California workers protected from heat?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is one of a few states with laws that mandate employers provide water breaks, shade and rest for outdoor workers once temperatures reach certain levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state implemented its outdoor heat standard in 2005, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/ucdavis/protecting-californias-farmworkers-as-temperatures-climb/#:~:text=California%20passed%20the%20nation's%20most,water%2C%20shade%20and%20rest%20breaks.\">several farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> —\u003c/strong> three in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-03-me-farmworkers3-story.html\">Kern County\u003c/a> and one in Fresno County — died due to heat exposure. After the 2008 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/farm-workers-rights-pregnant-17-year-old-death-2008-maria-isavel-vasquez-jimenez/40950637#:~:text=Mar%C3%ADa%20was%2017%20years%20old,when%20tragedy%20struck%20the%20family.\">death of a pregnant \u003c/a>teen working in a Central Valley vineyard\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>drew national outrage, state officials frantically tried to strengthen and enforce the heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886628","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Washington Center study found occupational heat-related injuries in California declined by about 30% since the standards took effect in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There still are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1185766013/farm-workers-extreme-heat-protection-farmers-safety\">no heat-related federal workplace protections\u003c/a>, even for outdoor workers, although the Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced two years ago it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185623467/the-federal-government-wants-to-protect-people-who-work-outdoors-from-wildfire-s\">developing heat rules\u003c/a> for outdoor and indoor workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s currently little relief for California’s indoor workers. The state has been considering proposals for heat rules for employees in indoor settings like restaurants or warehouses for nearly seven years, missing a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1167\">2019 deadline\u003c/a> the Legislature set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a 24-year-old United Parcel Service driver died after collapsing from the heat during deliveries in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 340,000-strong union representing the UPS workers has been seeking heat rules that would cover its California members. The union reached a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Teamsters/status/1683867683845021697?s=20\">historic\u003c/a>” contract agreement with the company July 25 after threatening a strike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b3z8/teamsters-ups-union-wins-historic-contract-avoids-gigantic-strike\">securing a deal\u003c/a> with higher wages and more heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jassy Grewal, a lobbyist for the United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council and a member of the state’s heat advisory committee, said workers in high-intensity environments, or those who don’t have a cool place at home, are especially vulnerable without indoor heat rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of pressures from employers, like work quotas, contribute to heat-related illness,” Grewal asked during\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first committee meeting. “And how does the intensity of work and how physically demanding it is relate to the impact of heat exposure while at work and while not at work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gaps in job protections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unions and worker advocates have sued the state in the past to enforce heat-related regulations, and they say the state needs to hold employers accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups warn that despite progress, the greatest risk to workers lies with the state’s troubled enforcement record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts say it’s as simple as better outreach, informing workers about heat risks and their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all implementation and ensuring that these workers actually get the benefits of these laws,” said Michael Méndez, environmental policy professor at UC Irvine, “and having a culturally and linguistically appropriate messaging on the risk and severity of these heat waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"heat"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think for any population it’s confusing to understand how our climate is changing and how much risk they could have. So ensuring that we have trusted messengers and doing it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate way matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Farm Workers sued the Cal/OSHA in 2012\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to compel the state to enforce heat rules for farmworkers. In 2015 the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cal-osha-farm-workers-20150612-story.html\">settled\u003c/a> a suit the union brought on behalf of five farmworkers who alleged Cal/OSHA was systematically neglecting its duty to enforce the 2005 law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UFW spokesperson Antonio de Loera-Brust told CalMatters “people died to win” California’s enforcement standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect state agencies to be out in full strength across California to make sure employers are being compliant with the state heat rules,” De Loera-Brust said. “Heat is still a deadly hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmworker health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A February \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/02/farmworkers-conditions-california-report/\">study on California farmworker health\u003c/a> and safety by the \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/\">UC Merced Community and Labor Center\u003c/a> found that only a third of farm laborers could recognize the symptoms of a heat-related illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only half of the roughly 1,500 farmworkers surveyed said their employers always provide shade mandated by California law when it hits 80 degrees, while a quarter said their employers never or rarely provide the required shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/farmworker-health-study/farmworker-health-study-data-dashboard\">study\u003c/a>, which surveyed farmworkers in six languages, also found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About 22% of farmworkers said their employer “never” monitors for heat illness. A slightly higher percentage in the Imperial Valley, where scorching temperatures are common, said the same.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>82% of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley said they have received heat-related illness training.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>About 43% of farmworkers statewide, including two-thirds of Central Coast farmworkers, said their employers never had a written heat illness protection plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some farm employers still don’t comply with state rules about providing water, shade and rest, the survey shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>55% of farmworkers across the state said their employers always monitored the temperature on hot days — 76% said it in the Imperial Valley, but 46% did in Napa Valley and Sonoma areas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>75% of farmworkers said their employers provide clean drinking water every time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barely half of farmworkers reported their employers always provide a 10-minute cool down rest, while 21% said their employers “never” did.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/content/alice-berliner\">Alice Berliner\u003c/a>, worker health and safety program director at the community and labor center, said it’s clear some workers aren’t getting safety information or training in Spanish when they need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know heat-related deaths are going up,” she said. “If we want to prevent future deaths from happening, we really need to ensure workers are protected at work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials taking preventive measures, such as conducting heat sweeps ahead of heat waves, has helped, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What will the state committee do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/robert-rivas-1980/\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, who authored legislation creating the advisory committee last year, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Heat-Advisory-Committee/\">panel of 13\u003c/a> a “solid first step.” He said he will work with the Legislature to do more for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is accelerating, and extreme heat and heat-related illnesses are on the rise,” the Salinas Democrat said in a statement. “California is committed to protecting workers’ health and quality of life during extreme heat waves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite near-universal consensus among state officials and advocates that heat reform work is urgent, and despite recent record shattering temperatures, the committee has been given a 2026 deadline to report results to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is set to meet quarterly. The next session is September 19. Members indicated they’ll likely commission a study to guide the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no doubt the work this committee will do will save lives,” said Cal/OSHA chief Jeff Killip at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956922/hot-workplaces-have-a-hidden-cost-20000-job-injuries-a-year-in-california","authors":["byline_news_11956922"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_5043","news_18269","news_2929","news_32954","news_18578","news_19904","news_19377","news_24100"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11956739","label":"news_18481"},"news_11955907":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955907","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955907","score":null,"sort":[1689717615000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"derechos-laborales-ola-de-calor","title":"¿Trabaja al aire libre? Estas son las protecciones que su jefe debe de ofrecer","publishDate":1689717615,"format":"standard","headTitle":"¿Trabaja al aire libre? Estas son las protecciones que su jefe debe de ofrecer | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>¿No tiene tiempo para leer toda la guía? Haga clic en los enlaces para visitar esa sección en particular:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#protecciones\">\u003cstrong>Si trabajo al aire libre en California, ¿cuáles son mis protecciones cuando hace mucho calor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hablar\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo debo hablar con mi empleador sobre estas protecciones?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#niega\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué puedo hacer si mi empleador se niega a ofrecer estas protecciones?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#represalias\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué puedo hacer si mi empleador toma represalias contra mí por hablar sobre mis derechos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#opciones\">\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles son mis otras opciones en este caso?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cada año, el Área de la Bahía está experimentando olas de calor cada vez más intensas, como lo que ocurrió en septiembre de 2022, cuando varias ciudades registraron temperaturas récord. San José, Santa Rosa y otros lugares superaron los 100 grados Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque algunas personas pueden trabajar en hogares u oficinas que cuentan con aire acondicionado, muchos trabajadores esenciales, como los de la construcción, los trabajadores agrícolas y los repartidores, tienen que permanecer al aire libre, expuestos a las altas temperaturas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando hay una ola de calor en California, todas las compañías y patrones están obligados por ley a proporcionar cuatro cosas a sus empleados que trabajan al aire libre: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estas son \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/espanol/\">las normas establecidas por la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de California\u003c/a> (Cal/OSHA, por sus siglas en inglés), las cuales protegen a todos aquellos que trabajan al aire libre, sin importar su situación migratoria o tipo de empleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, varias personas que trabajan al aire libre han compartido con KQED que no es fácil abordar este tema con su empleador. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">Algunos temen perder su trabajo si alzan la voz\u003c/a>, mientras que otros no están seguros si pueden recibir estas protecciones debido a su estatus migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es una verdadera preocupación”, dijo David Hornung, coordinador del programa de calor y agricultura de Cal/OSHA, “los trabajadores no quieren pedir sus protecciones laborales debido a su preocupación de sufrir represalias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted está trabajando al aire libre durante una ola de calor y su empleador no le otorga las protecciones necesarias, hay varias cosas que puede hacer, incluso si no se siente cómodo planteando las cosas directamente a su supervisor.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"protecciones\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son las protecciones de Cal/OSHA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En julio de 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/epic/impacts-biological-systems/heat-related-mortality-and-morbidity\">una gran ola de calor en California provocó la muerte de al menos 140 personas en dos semanas\u003c/a>, la mayor tasa de mortalidad registrada en un solo evento de calor. Debido a esta situación, los reguladores estatales decidieron aumentar las protecciones para quienes trabajan al aire libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El empleador debe proveer agua potable que sea fresca y gratuita para que cada trabajador tenga lo suficiente para beber”, dijo Angela Yahaira Breining, abogada del programa de derechos laborales en el Centro Legal de la Raza en Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según las normas de California, cada trabajador debe recibir un cuarto de galón de agua por hora (eso equivale a un poco menos de un litro de agua). E incluso si los trabajadores traen sus propias botellas de agua, los empleadores deben tener suficiente agua disponible en el lugar de trabajo.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Cuando hay una ola de calor en California, todas las compañías y patrones están obligados por ley a proporcionar cuatro cosas a sus empleados que trabajan al aire libre: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia.[/pullquote]Cuando las temperaturas superan los 80 grados Farenheit (o 26 centigrados), los empleadores también deben proveer un área con suficiente sombra para acomodar a todos los trabajadores en el lugar, como una carpa. Pero Breining agrega que los trabajadores también tienen derecho a pedir un descanso bajo la sombra, sin importar la temperatura, siempre que estos lo consideren necesario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y cuando las temperaturas superan los 95 grados Farenheit (o 35 centigrados), “los supervisores deben observar a los empleados con regularidad”, dice Breining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener un supervisor en el lugar de trabajo, explica Breining, es necesario para establecer un sistema de comunicación que pueda entrar en acción si un trabajador empieza a sentirse mal. “Si a alguien le duele la cabeza, hay que hacer que esta persona se siente, asegurarse de que haya una forma de comunicarse con los superiores y tener un plan de emergencia”, explica ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener un plan de emergencia es el siguiente requisito para los empleadores, dice Hornung, de Cal/OSHA. Eso incluye “entrenar a todos los empleados para que reconozcan los signos y síntomas de las enfermedades causadas por el calor en ellos mismos o en sus compañeros de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Un obrero está sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta, pelando frijoles. Hay una carpa encima de la camioneta y su rostro está detrás de la carpa.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un vendedor sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta cubierta de lona en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco pela frijoles el 6 de agosto de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Quién tiene derecho a estas protecciones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algo que Hornung escucha a menudo es que las normas de Cal/OSHA sólo se aplican a ciertas industrias. Pero él aclara: “estas protecciones son para todos aquellos que trabajan al aire libre, no sólo los trabajadores del sector agrícola”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se aplica a los trabajadores de la construcción, a los jardineros, a los paisajistas, al personal de mantenimiento y a cualquiera que conduzca camiones que no tengan aire acondicionado”, él agrega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro error común, añade Hornung, es que estas normas sólo protegen a los ciudadanos o a las personas con estatus migratorio válido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La ley estatal para la seguridad en el trabajo es genial porque protege a todos los trabajadores sin importar su estatus migratorio”, dijo. “Así que si cuenta con documentos o no, sigue protegido por nuestras normas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero si usted trabaja de manera informal, las cosas son un poco más complicadas y a menudo dependen de la situación.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Hornung, Cal/OSHA\"]‘La ley estatal para la seguridad en el trabajo es genial porque protege a todos los trabajadores sin importar su estatus migratorio … así que si cuenta con documentos o no, sigue protegido por nuestras normas’.[/pullquote]Hornung explica que Cal/OSHA necesita verificar primero que existe una “relación empleado-empleador”, es decir, que el trabajador ha dado su mano de obra a cambio de un pago. Esto puede incluir a los trabajadores que no tienen un contrato formal de empleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si un trabajador recibe un pago de un empleador, entonces eso establece una relación empleado-empleador”, dijo Hornung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero las protecciones contra el calor no se aplican a quienes trabajan por su propia cuenta, o sea, quienes son sus propios jefes, como es el caso de los dueños de carritos de fruta que venden sus propios productos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hablar\">\u003c/a>Si mi jefe no cumple con las reglas de Cal/OSHA, ¿cómo debo de hablar de esto con él?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede ser difícil para algunos trabajadores acercarse a sus supervisores, las leyes laborales de California prohíben a los empleadores tomar represalias contra los trabajadores que alcen la voz sobre las condiciones de trabajo inseguras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es ilegal que un empleador tome represalias contra esto, hablar de un derecho laboral al que tienen derecho”, dijo Breining, la abogada de derechos de los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella recomienda a los trabajadores que documenten por escrito todo lo que ocurre, incluyendo las fechas y lugares en los que sus jefes no han respetado las normas. Y sugiere que los trabajadores también se dirijan a sus empleadores por escrito, en forma de mensaje de texto, un correo electrónico o una carta tradicional.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']“Diga específicamente qué es lo que pide”, dice Breining. “¿Está pidiendo que el empleador ofrezca un entrenamiento, que vea cuál es el plan para prevenir las enfermedades causadas por el calor, o que reciba más descansos en la sombra?”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documente cada vez que su empleador no siga las normas sobre el calor, ya que eso puede ser útil más adelante si usted decide presentar una queja ante Cal/OSHA, dice Breining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, Hornung sugiere que los trabajadores que temen represalias inmediatas discutan primero el asunto con sus compañeros para conseguir apoyo adicional. “Así que, en lugar de que usted como individuo se lo pida a su jefe, intente que sus compañeros de trabajo lo hagan en grupo”, dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el hecho de que las represalias sean ilegales no impide que un empleador tome represalias contra los trabajadores que denuncian una injusticia laboral, dice Cynthia Rice, abogada de derechos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nunca decimos que el empleador no puede tomar represalias contra usted, porque por supuesto que el empleador puede tomarlas”, ella dijo a KQED. Si cree que su empleador le ha despedido o le ha recortado las horas porque alzó la voz sobre lo que pasa en su lugar de trabajo, \u003ca href=\"#represalias\">\u003cstrong>puede presentar una denuncia con las oficinas del estado, quienes pueden iniciar una investigación.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El carrito de un vendedor ambulante, el cual lleva varios contenedores de plástico que guardan fruta fresca y cortada. El carrito está protegido de los rayos del sol por un parasol.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un comerciante vende fruta cortada bajo una sombrilla en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco el 6 de agosto de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"niega\">\u003c/a>Mi empleador no me ha escuchado. ¿Qué hago ahora?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si un empleador se rehusa a proporcionar las protecciones requeridas contra el calor, el siguiente paso puede ser presentar una queja ante Cal/OSHA, \u003cstrong>lo cual puede hacer de manera anónima\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La agencia tiene varias sucursales en el Área de la Bahía con las que un trabajador puede ponerse en contacto directamente para presentar una denuncia según donde se ubique su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores de San Francisco pueden llamar al (415) 557-0100.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del condado de San Mateo pueden llamar a la oficina de Foster City al (650) 573-3812. Esta oficina también atiende a los trabajadores de algunas localidades de Santa Clara, como Palo Alto, Mountain View y Sunnyvale.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>La mayoría de los trabajadores del condado de Santa Clara pueden llamar a la oficina de Fremont al (510) 794-2521.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del condado de Alameda pueden llamar a la oficina de Oakland al (510) 622-2916.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del norte de la Bahía, lo que incluye a los condados de Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marín y Contra Costa, pueden llamar a la oficina de American Canyon al (707) 649-3700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>También hay una línea de ayuda estatal para el calor que ofrece asistencia tanto en español, inglés y muchos idiomas más: (833) 579-0927.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al presentar una denuncia, le harán preguntas sobre su empleador o empresa, como el nombre, la ubicación y el número de trabajadores en el lugar, cuántas horas trabaja al día, y cuál es el problema de seguridad. Aquí es cuando resulta especialmente útil tener un registro escrito de los incidentes o conversaciones anteriores que tuvo con su jefe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es opcional dar su nombre, pero Hornung, de Cal/OSHA dice que si usted da su información de contacto, puede ser notificado cuándo Cal/OSHA reciba su informe y si la dependencia decide investigar la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si Cal/OSHA se hace cargo de su caso, la agencia asignará un inspector a su lugar de trabajo que hablará con los empleadores y los empleados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si confirmamos que hubo alguna infracción del código de California”, dice Hornung, “el empresario será multado por esas infracciones”. El empleador también tendrá que resolver cualquier situación que esté poniendo en riesgo a los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Un obrero está sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta, tapado del sol por una carpa. Sus manos cuidadosamente pelan frijoles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un vendedor se protege del sol mientras pela frijoles en San Francisco el 6 de agosto de 2021. David Hornung, de Cal/OSHA, dice que las protecciones estatales contra el calor se aplican a todas las personas que trabajan al aire libre, no sólo a los trabajadores agrícolas. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"represalias\">\u003c/a>Si su empleador decide tomar represalias contra usted durante este tiempo y le amenaza, le recorta las horas o le despide, eso es motivo para presentar una queja por represalias ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. Puede \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/rci_osha_complaint.htm\">reportar una represalia por internet\u003c/a> (en la página web de esta agencia, aparece un botón en la parte superior de la pantalla que dice ‘Translate,’ donde puede escoger la opción de ‘Spanish’.) También puede llamar al (714) 558-4913 o escribir un correo electrónico a la dirección: \u003ca href=\"mailto:oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\">oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si (su empleador) toma represalias contra usted, usted tiene un recurso”, dijo Breining. “Pueden ofrecerle de nuevo su empleo, el empleador sería sancionado y si perdió sus ingresos por la represalia, puede recibir este salario”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted es un trabajador agrícola, otra opción es presentar una queja contra su empleador ante el Consejo de Relaciones del Trabajo Agrícola de California (ALRB, por sus siglas en inglés). El ALRB investiga posibles prácticas laborales injustas, incluyendo las represalias de un empleador contra un trabajador que denuncia condiciones de trabajo inseguras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El ALRB requiere que al menos dos empleados presenten la denuncia. Usted puede presentar una denuncia \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2018/05/alrb_form38_en.pdf\">utilizando este formulario (sólo disponible en inglés)\u003c/a> y luego enviarla, ya sea por correo o por fax, a la oficina del ALRB más cercana. En el Área de la Bahía, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/contact-us/\">la oficina regional del ALRB está en Santa Rosa y lo pueden atender en español\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>606 Healdsburg Avenue\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa, CA 95401\u003cbr>\nTeléfono: (707) 527-3256\u003cbr>\nFax: (707) 576-2360\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"opciones\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son mis otras opciones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En el 2021, los trabajadores de un restaurante de comida rápida de Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">presentaron una queja de seguridad por COVID-19 en su lugar de trabajo ante Cal/OSHA contra su empleador\u003c/a>, alegando condiciones de trabajo inseguras. Los funcionarios de la agencia respondieron nueve meses después diciendo que no se había encontrado ninguna violación, incluso cuando los empleados que presentaron el informe original afirman que los inspectores nunca se pusieron en contacto con ellos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La falta de personal \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2020/10/la-respuesta-de-la-agencia-de-seguridad-laboral-de-california-a-las-quejas-de-covid-cartas-no-inspecciones/\">ha dificultado el trabajo de Cal/OSHA durante años\u003c/a>, y estos problemas han aumentado durante la pandemia, limitando la capacidad de la agencia para investigar las denuncias de trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, la agencia sí ha logrado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\">multar este año a cientos de empleadores que no han cumplido con las normas del estado\u003c/a>. Tomará tiempo, pero presentar una denuncia puede producir un resultado.[aside postID=\"news_11941448\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/FARMWORKETS-SHOVELING-DIRT-YELLOW-RAINGEAR.jpg\"]Pero hay otras medidas que se pueden tomar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining, la abogada de los derechos de los trabajadores, señala que hay múltiples oficinas de ayuda legal en el Área de la Bahía que pueden apoyar a los empleados a lo largo del proceso legal, la mayoría de las veces sin costo alguno, incluyendo el Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estamos más que contentos de ayudarles (a los trabajadores) a presentar la queja o ayudarles a hacer una carta de demanda si realmente no quieren pasar por el proceso más formal”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining añade que, en muchos casos, los trabajadores acuden a su oficina cuando sus empleadores ya han tomado represalias contra ellos o ya han sufrido enfermedades relacionadas con el calor. Aunque el Centro Legal puede proporcionar asistencia, anima a los trabajadores a buscar ayuda antes de que las cosas vayan mal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preferimos ayudar cuando esta situación esté sucediendo para que no tengamos que utilizar los procesos legales más difíciles después de los hechos”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estas son algunas organizaciones que ofrecen ayuda legal gratuita a los trabajadores del Área de la Bahía:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/?lang=es\">Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland)\u003c/a>: (510) 437-1554\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/es\">La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco)\u003c/a>: (415) 575-3500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: (415) 621-4155\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: (415) 864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://crla.org/es\">California Rural Legal Assistance:\u003c/a> (800) 337-0690\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://streetlevelhealthproject.org/\">Street Level Health Project (Oakland)\u003c/a>: (510) 533-9906\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: (415) 896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una versión de esta historia fue publicada originalmente en inglés el 8 de septiembre de 2021. Este artículo incluye información de Farida Jhabvala Romero de KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Durante una ola de calor en California, cada persona que trabaja al aire libre tiene derecho a cuatro cosas: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia, sin importar su estatus migratorio.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689718125,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2972},"headData":{"title":"¿Trabaja al aire libre? Estas son las protecciones que su jefe debe de ofrecer | KQED","description":"Durante una ola de calor en California, cada persona que trabaja al aire libre tiene derecho a cuatro cosas: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia, sin importar su estatus migratorio.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"¿Trabaja al aire libre? Estas son las protecciones que su jefe debe de ofrecer","datePublished":"2023-07-18T22:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-18T22:08:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"KQED en Español","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/kqedenespanol","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955907/derechos-laborales-ola-de-calor","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>¿No tiene tiempo para leer toda la guía? Haga clic en los enlaces para visitar esa sección en particular:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#protecciones\">\u003cstrong>Si trabajo al aire libre en California, ¿cuáles son mis protecciones cuando hace mucho calor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hablar\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo debo hablar con mi empleador sobre estas protecciones?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#niega\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué puedo hacer si mi empleador se niega a ofrecer estas protecciones?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#represalias\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué puedo hacer si mi empleador toma represalias contra mí por hablar sobre mis derechos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#opciones\">\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles son mis otras opciones en este caso?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cada año, el Área de la Bahía está experimentando olas de calor cada vez más intensas, como lo que ocurrió en septiembre de 2022, cuando varias ciudades registraron temperaturas récord. San José, Santa Rosa y otros lugares superaron los 100 grados Fahrenheit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque algunas personas pueden trabajar en hogares u oficinas que cuentan con aire acondicionado, muchos trabajadores esenciales, como los de la construcción, los trabajadores agrícolas y los repartidores, tienen que permanecer al aire libre, expuestos a las altas temperaturas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando hay una ola de calor en California, todas las compañías y patrones están obligados por ley a proporcionar cuatro cosas a sus empleados que trabajan al aire libre: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estas son \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/espanol/\">las normas establecidas por la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de California\u003c/a> (Cal/OSHA, por sus siglas en inglés), las cuales protegen a todos aquellos que trabajan al aire libre, sin importar su situación migratoria o tipo de empleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, varias personas que trabajan al aire libre han compartido con KQED que no es fácil abordar este tema con su empleador. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">Algunos temen perder su trabajo si alzan la voz\u003c/a>, mientras que otros no están seguros si pueden recibir estas protecciones debido a su estatus migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es una verdadera preocupación”, dijo David Hornung, coordinador del programa de calor y agricultura de Cal/OSHA, “los trabajadores no quieren pedir sus protecciones laborales debido a su preocupación de sufrir represalias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted está trabajando al aire libre durante una ola de calor y su empleador no le otorga las protecciones necesarias, hay varias cosas que puede hacer, incluso si no se siente cómodo planteando las cosas directamente a su supervisor.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"protecciones\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son las protecciones de Cal/OSHA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En julio de 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/epic/impacts-biological-systems/heat-related-mortality-and-morbidity\">una gran ola de calor en California provocó la muerte de al menos 140 personas en dos semanas\u003c/a>, la mayor tasa de mortalidad registrada en un solo evento de calor. Debido a esta situación, los reguladores estatales decidieron aumentar las protecciones para quienes trabajan al aire libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El empleador debe proveer agua potable que sea fresca y gratuita para que cada trabajador tenga lo suficiente para beber”, dijo Angela Yahaira Breining, abogada del programa de derechos laborales en el Centro Legal de la Raza en Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según las normas de California, cada trabajador debe recibir un cuarto de galón de agua por hora (eso equivale a un poco menos de un litro de agua). E incluso si los trabajadores traen sus propias botellas de agua, los empleadores deben tener suficiente agua disponible en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Cuando hay una ola de calor en California, todas las compañías y patrones están obligados por ley a proporcionar cuatro cosas a sus empleados que trabajan al aire libre: agua fresca, sombra, descansos y un plan de emergencia.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cuando las temperaturas superan los 80 grados Farenheit (o 26 centigrados), los empleadores también deben proveer un área con suficiente sombra para acomodar a todos los trabajadores en el lugar, como una carpa. Pero Breining agrega que los trabajadores también tienen derecho a pedir un descanso bajo la sombra, sin importar la temperatura, siempre que estos lo consideren necesario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y cuando las temperaturas superan los 95 grados Farenheit (o 35 centigrados), “los supervisores deben observar a los empleados con regularidad”, dice Breining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener un supervisor en el lugar de trabajo, explica Breining, es necesario para establecer un sistema de comunicación que pueda entrar en acción si un trabajador empieza a sentirse mal. “Si a alguien le duele la cabeza, hay que hacer que esta persona se siente, asegurarse de que haya una forma de comunicarse con los superiores y tener un plan de emergencia”, explica ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener un plan de emergencia es el siguiente requisito para los empleadores, dice Hornung, de Cal/OSHA. Eso incluye “entrenar a todos los empleados para que reconozcan los signos y síntomas de las enfermedades causadas por el calor en ellos mismos o en sus compañeros de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Un obrero está sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta, pelando frijoles. Hay una carpa encima de la camioneta y su rostro está detrás de la carpa.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un vendedor sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta cubierta de lona en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco pela frijoles el 6 de agosto de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Quién tiene derecho a estas protecciones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algo que Hornung escucha a menudo es que las normas de Cal/OSHA sólo se aplican a ciertas industrias. Pero él aclara: “estas protecciones son para todos aquellos que trabajan al aire libre, no sólo los trabajadores del sector agrícola”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se aplica a los trabajadores de la construcción, a los jardineros, a los paisajistas, al personal de mantenimiento y a cualquiera que conduzca camiones que no tengan aire acondicionado”, él agrega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro error común, añade Hornung, es que estas normas sólo protegen a los ciudadanos o a las personas con estatus migratorio válido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La ley estatal para la seguridad en el trabajo es genial porque protege a todos los trabajadores sin importar su estatus migratorio”, dijo. “Así que si cuenta con documentos o no, sigue protegido por nuestras normas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero si usted trabaja de manera informal, las cosas son un poco más complicadas y a menudo dependen de la situación.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘La ley estatal para la seguridad en el trabajo es genial porque protege a todos los trabajadores sin importar su estatus migratorio … así que si cuenta con documentos o no, sigue protegido por nuestras normas’.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"David Hornung, Cal/OSHA","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hornung explica que Cal/OSHA necesita verificar primero que existe una “relación empleado-empleador”, es decir, que el trabajador ha dado su mano de obra a cambio de un pago. Esto puede incluir a los trabajadores que no tienen un contrato formal de empleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si un trabajador recibe un pago de un empleador, entonces eso establece una relación empleado-empleador”, dijo Hornung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero las protecciones contra el calor no se aplican a quienes trabajan por su propia cuenta, o sea, quienes son sus propios jefes, como es el caso de los dueños de carritos de fruta que venden sus propios productos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hablar\">\u003c/a>Si mi jefe no cumple con las reglas de Cal/OSHA, ¿cómo debo de hablar de esto con él?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede ser difícil para algunos trabajadores acercarse a sus supervisores, las leyes laborales de California prohíben a los empleadores tomar represalias contra los trabajadores que alcen la voz sobre las condiciones de trabajo inseguras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es ilegal que un empleador tome represalias contra esto, hablar de un derecho laboral al que tienen derecho”, dijo Breining, la abogada de derechos de los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella recomienda a los trabajadores que documenten por escrito todo lo que ocurre, incluyendo las fechas y lugares en los que sus jefes no han respetado las normas. Y sugiere que los trabajadores también se dirijan a sus empleadores por escrito, en forma de mensaje de texto, un correo electrónico o una carta tradicional.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Más en español ","tag":"kqed-en-espanol"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Diga específicamente qué es lo que pide”, dice Breining. “¿Está pidiendo que el empleador ofrezca un entrenamiento, que vea cuál es el plan para prevenir las enfermedades causadas por el calor, o que reciba más descansos en la sombra?”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documente cada vez que su empleador no siga las normas sobre el calor, ya que eso puede ser útil más adelante si usted decide presentar una queja ante Cal/OSHA, dice Breining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, Hornung sugiere que los trabajadores que temen represalias inmediatas discutan primero el asunto con sus compañeros para conseguir apoyo adicional. “Así que, en lugar de que usted como individuo se lo pida a su jefe, intente que sus compañeros de trabajo lo hagan en grupo”, dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el hecho de que las represalias sean ilegales no impide que un empleador tome represalias contra los trabajadores que denuncian una injusticia laboral, dice Cynthia Rice, abogada de derechos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nunca decimos que el empleador no puede tomar represalias contra usted, porque por supuesto que el empleador puede tomarlas”, ella dijo a KQED. Si cree que su empleador le ha despedido o le ha recortado las horas porque alzó la voz sobre lo que pasa en su lugar de trabajo, \u003ca href=\"#represalias\">\u003cstrong>puede presentar una denuncia con las oficinas del estado, quienes pueden iniciar una investigación.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El carrito de un vendedor ambulante, el cual lleva varios contenedores de plástico que guardan fruta fresca y cortada. El carrito está protegido de los rayos del sol por un parasol.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un comerciante vende fruta cortada bajo una sombrilla en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco el 6 de agosto de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"niega\">\u003c/a>Mi empleador no me ha escuchado. ¿Qué hago ahora?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si un empleador se rehusa a proporcionar las protecciones requeridas contra el calor, el siguiente paso puede ser presentar una queja ante Cal/OSHA, \u003cstrong>lo cual puede hacer de manera anónima\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La agencia tiene varias sucursales en el Área de la Bahía con las que un trabajador puede ponerse en contacto directamente para presentar una denuncia según donde se ubique su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores de San Francisco pueden llamar al (415) 557-0100.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del condado de San Mateo pueden llamar a la oficina de Foster City al (650) 573-3812. Esta oficina también atiende a los trabajadores de algunas localidades de Santa Clara, como Palo Alto, Mountain View y Sunnyvale.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>La mayoría de los trabajadores del condado de Santa Clara pueden llamar a la oficina de Fremont al (510) 794-2521.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del condado de Alameda pueden llamar a la oficina de Oakland al (510) 622-2916.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los trabajadores del norte de la Bahía, lo que incluye a los condados de Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marín y Contra Costa, pueden llamar a la oficina de American Canyon al (707) 649-3700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>También hay una línea de ayuda estatal para el calor que ofrece asistencia tanto en español, inglés y muchos idiomas más: (833) 579-0927.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al presentar una denuncia, le harán preguntas sobre su empleador o empresa, como el nombre, la ubicación y el número de trabajadores en el lugar, cuántas horas trabaja al día, y cuál es el problema de seguridad. Aquí es cuando resulta especialmente útil tener un registro escrito de los incidentes o conversaciones anteriores que tuvo con su jefe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es opcional dar su nombre, pero Hornung, de Cal/OSHA dice que si usted da su información de contacto, puede ser notificado cuándo Cal/OSHA reciba su informe y si la dependencia decide investigar la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si Cal/OSHA se hace cargo de su caso, la agencia asignará un inspector a su lugar de trabajo que hablará con los empleadores y los empleados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si confirmamos que hubo alguna infracción del código de California”, dice Hornung, “el empresario será multado por esas infracciones”. El empleador también tendrá que resolver cualquier situación que esté poniendo en riesgo a los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Un obrero está sentado en la parte trasera de una camioneta, tapado del sol por una carpa. Sus manos cuidadosamente pelan frijoles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un vendedor se protege del sol mientras pela frijoles en San Francisco el 6 de agosto de 2021. David Hornung, de Cal/OSHA, dice que las protecciones estatales contra el calor se aplican a todas las personas que trabajan al aire libre, no sólo a los trabajadores agrícolas. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"represalias\">\u003c/a>Si su empleador decide tomar represalias contra usted durante este tiempo y le amenaza, le recorta las horas o le despide, eso es motivo para presentar una queja por represalias ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. Puede \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/rci_osha_complaint.htm\">reportar una represalia por internet\u003c/a> (en la página web de esta agencia, aparece un botón en la parte superior de la pantalla que dice ‘Translate,’ donde puede escoger la opción de ‘Spanish’.) También puede llamar al (714) 558-4913 o escribir un correo electrónico a la dirección: \u003ca href=\"mailto:oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\">oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si (su empleador) toma represalias contra usted, usted tiene un recurso”, dijo Breining. “Pueden ofrecerle de nuevo su empleo, el empleador sería sancionado y si perdió sus ingresos por la represalia, puede recibir este salario”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted es un trabajador agrícola, otra opción es presentar una queja contra su empleador ante el Consejo de Relaciones del Trabajo Agrícola de California (ALRB, por sus siglas en inglés). El ALRB investiga posibles prácticas laborales injustas, incluyendo las represalias de un empleador contra un trabajador que denuncia condiciones de trabajo inseguras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El ALRB requiere que al menos dos empleados presenten la denuncia. Usted puede presentar una denuncia \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2018/05/alrb_form38_en.pdf\">utilizando este formulario (sólo disponible en inglés)\u003c/a> y luego enviarla, ya sea por correo o por fax, a la oficina del ALRB más cercana. En el Área de la Bahía, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/contact-us/\">la oficina regional del ALRB está en Santa Rosa y lo pueden atender en español\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>606 Healdsburg Avenue\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa, CA 95401\u003cbr>\nTeléfono: (707) 527-3256\u003cbr>\nFax: (707) 576-2360\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"opciones\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son mis otras opciones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En el 2021, los trabajadores de un restaurante de comida rápida de Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">presentaron una queja de seguridad por COVID-19 en su lugar de trabajo ante Cal/OSHA contra su empleador\u003c/a>, alegando condiciones de trabajo inseguras. Los funcionarios de la agencia respondieron nueve meses después diciendo que no se había encontrado ninguna violación, incluso cuando los empleados que presentaron el informe original afirman que los inspectores nunca se pusieron en contacto con ellos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La falta de personal \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2020/10/la-respuesta-de-la-agencia-de-seguridad-laboral-de-california-a-las-quejas-de-covid-cartas-no-inspecciones/\">ha dificultado el trabajo de Cal/OSHA durante años\u003c/a>, y estos problemas han aumentado durante la pandemia, limitando la capacidad de la agencia para investigar las denuncias de trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, la agencia sí ha logrado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\">multar este año a cientos de empleadores que no han cumplido con las normas del estado\u003c/a>. Tomará tiempo, pero presentar una denuncia puede producir un resultado.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11941448","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/FARMWORKETS-SHOVELING-DIRT-YELLOW-RAINGEAR.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pero hay otras medidas que se pueden tomar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining, la abogada de los derechos de los trabajadores, señala que hay múltiples oficinas de ayuda legal en el Área de la Bahía que pueden apoyar a los empleados a lo largo del proceso legal, la mayoría de las veces sin costo alguno, incluyendo el Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estamos más que contentos de ayudarles (a los trabajadores) a presentar la queja o ayudarles a hacer una carta de demanda si realmente no quieren pasar por el proceso más formal”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining añade que, en muchos casos, los trabajadores acuden a su oficina cuando sus empleadores ya han tomado represalias contra ellos o ya han sufrido enfermedades relacionadas con el calor. Aunque el Centro Legal puede proporcionar asistencia, anima a los trabajadores a buscar ayuda antes de que las cosas vayan mal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preferimos ayudar cuando esta situación esté sucediendo para que no tengamos que utilizar los procesos legales más difíciles después de los hechos”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estas son algunas organizaciones que ofrecen ayuda legal gratuita a los trabajadores del Área de la Bahía:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/?lang=es\">Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland)\u003c/a>: (510) 437-1554\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/es\">La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco)\u003c/a>: (415) 575-3500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: (415) 621-4155\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: (415) 864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://crla.org/es\">California Rural Legal Assistance:\u003c/a> (800) 337-0690\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://streetlevelhealthproject.org/\">Street Level Health Project (Oakland)\u003c/a>: (510) 533-9906\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: (415) 896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una versión de esta historia fue publicada originalmente en inglés el 8 de septiembre de 2021. Este artículo incluye información de Farida Jhabvala Romero de KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955907/derechos-laborales-ola-de-calor","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_457","news_1169","news_28523","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_32931","news_5043","news_31321","news_27735","news_28586","news_30152","news_28535","news_27775","news_26702","news_28444","news_32930","news_28667","news_31319","news_32932"],"featImg":"news_11955912","label":"source_news_11955907"},"news_11939848":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11939848","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11939848","score":null,"sort":[1675209866000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-legacy-of-slavery-for-domestic-workers-californias-new-safety-guidelines-are-long-overdue-say-advocates","title":"'A Legacy of Slavery': For Domestic Workers, California's New Safety Guidelines Are Long Overdue, Say Advocates","publishDate":1675209866,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In 2017, about a week after the massive Tubbs wildfire destroyed parts of Santa Rosa, house cleaner Socorro Diaz got a call from one of her clients. They asked her to work at their home, which was still standing next to incinerated buildings in the Fountaingrove neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Diaz arrived, she found the house full of ash. She said she didn’t have a proper mask or gloves to clean what she would soon realize was toxic residue. And after days of handling and breathing it in, her skin itched, her head hurt and her nose bled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11810305,news_11886628,news_11900049\"]“The sensation of the air, of breathing, hurt inside my nose,” said Diaz, 42, a mother of three children. “The smell was toxic, harmful, and I didn’t really have the right equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state \u003ca href=\"https://www.easylawlookup.com/California-Law/Labor-Code/par-6114/_easylookup.blp?GO=Prepare&site=easy&print=&data=labor&p_start=319&p_end=339&p_para=6114&p_epara=7598&par=6114&displayer=YES#:~:text=6303.,agency%20other%20than%20the%20division.\">labor law\u003c/a>, employers of domestic service workers are not required to provide equipment or other conditions for a safe workplace, as is the case in other industries. That’s because household domestic service is not legally considered a form of “employment” — a remnant of slavery and sexist policies, according to historians. But stories like Diaz’s propelled a multiyear effort to gain full protections for this workforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">estimated at more than 358,000 people (PDF)\u003c/a>, most of whom are immigrant women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical step to eventually end the exclusion of cleaners, nannies, home care aides and day laborers — who work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">over 2 million California households (PDF)\u003c/a> — from bedrock workplace regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">safety guidance (PDF)\u003c/a>, published on Jan. 20, is the first in the nation to specifically cover the home as a workplace, say occupational health and safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recognizing paid household labor as work worthy of protections, which is very historic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/eileen-boris\">Eileen Boris\u003c/a>, an author of several history books on home caregivers and other domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a Latina woman in a pink shirt and vest with her hair pulled back, sitting with serious look on her face at an outdoor table\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz sits outside a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boris and house cleaner Diaz both were part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/advisory-comm.html\">statewide advisory committee\u003c/a> made up of employers, workers, advocates and occupational safety experts who worked alongside state regulators to produce the official guidelines. The committee’s task was mandated by a recent law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB321\">SB 321\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic service employees \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=gc_pubs\">often report job-related sickness or injury\u003c/a> from exposure to toxic cleaning chemicals, contagious illnesses like COVID-19 and ergonomic hazards. Because of back injuries, home attendants have injury rates comparable to those of construction workers, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidelines outline best practices for employers — including not to expect domestic workers to clean ash from wildfires, fix roofs, trim tall trees, clear out pest infestations or do any work that requires specialized equipment or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers also are urged to prevent injuries and illness by labeling toxic substances in a language the worker understands; creating an emergency preparedness plan for earthquakes or wildfires; offering puncture-resistant gloves to caregivers who handle needles; and removing electrical cords, wrinkled carpets and other tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not anti-employer guidelines,” said Boris, who has hired a house cleaner for many years. “These guidelines are to make a safe home space for all who live or work within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people is seen protesting, with a woman in the foreground holding an orange sign that reads 'Domestic workers are essential'\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1020x661.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-160x104.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1536x995.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic workers march to amplify their demands for health and safety protections in the workplace via Senate Bill 321 in Los Angeles on May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson/California Domestic Worker Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, any complaints by domestic workers that reach state job safety and health regulators will likely not be pursued, said a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees those regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, has jurisdiction over most workers — but not those engaged in domestic work. The exclusion is baked into the definition of “employment” in the state’s Labor Code 6303, which defines it as any trade, enterprise or occupation in which a person works for hire, “except household domestic service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the work is household domestic service, Cal/OSHA lacks the jurisdiction to issue citations,” said the DIR spokesperson, who declined to be named. “If the work is outside the household domestic service exception — for example, major construction work that includes adding a new bedroom — the Division would have jurisdiction to investigate and issue citations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal OSHA does cover some domestic service employees: those who are hired by a company, but not those \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1975/1975.6\">hired privately by an individual\u003c/a> to work at their residence. In California, covered employees could report problems to that agency, but only if they work in areas of federal jurisdiction, such as U.S. military installations or national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees hired by a company which is employing them in areas of federal jurisdiction in California can complain to federal OSHA about accidents or hazards and we will evaluate the info and take appropriate action, which could include an investigation,” said Mike Petersen, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various exemptions of domestic workers from basic health and safety protections at the federal level and in most states is a legacy of slavery, when African American people were made to do unpaid domestic labor, and of sexism, which devalues work traditionally done by women, said Boris, a UC Santa Barbara professor of feminist studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the waist down wearing blue rubber gloves picking up cleaning supplies from a red bucket\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz grabs cleaning solution during a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domestic workers were excluded from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. law that granted workers the nation’s first minimum wage and overtime pay. That omission continued into the early 1970s, when federal OSHA and its counterpart Cal/OSHA were created. It wasn’t until 1976 that the state began granting minimum wage and other labor protections to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadomesticworkers.org/about/our-history/#:~:text=In%201976%2C%20California%20passed%20a,seniors%20and%20people%20with%20disabilities.\">some categories of domestic employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California domestic workers have gained rights to overtime pay, paid sick leave and worker’s compensation benefits if they get injured on the job. But they continue to be excluded from state health and safety rules. Major obstacles to changing that have been concerns about privacy and anxiety over the weight of government regulation in the home, said Boris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">SB 1257\u003c/a>, that would have extended state occupational health and safety protections to domestic workers. In his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">veto message\u003c/a>, Newsom cited concerns that the proposed legislation would add millions of homes to the jurisdiction of Cal/OSHA — a severely understaffed agency — and would be too onerous for employers.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kimberly Alvarenga, director, California Domestic Workers Coalition\"]'California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today's world.'[/pullquote]“I strongly share the belief of the bill's author and proponents that, like all other California workers, domestic service employees deserve protections to ensure that their workplaces are safe and healthy,” Newsom said. “However, new laws in this area must recognize that the places where people live cannot be treated in the exact same manner as a traditional workplace or worksite from a regulatory perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Republican state senators who voted against that bill, including Sens. Brian Dahle, Scott Wilk and Shannon Grove, declined requests for comment about their concerns with the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, workers and advocates tried again to get legislators to strike the exemption from state law. After negotiations with Newsom, the measure that was ultimately enacted created the new voluntary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates wanted a law with more teeth, but they say they hope the voluntary guidance will be a first step toward allowing domestic workers to enjoy protections equal to those of other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the guidelines identify which labor standards apply to the home and how, said Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today's world,” said Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a blazer and sunglasses is seen clapping outside at a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. María Elena Durazo, seen here at a rally in support of striking fast-food cooks and cashiers in Los Angeles and Orange counties, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SB 321 advisory committee that developed the safety guidelines also issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Policy-Recommendations-SB-321.pdf\">policy recommendations (PDF)\u003c/a> for the state Legislature and workplace regulators. Those include removing the household domestic services exclusion from the California Labor Code and establishing financial assistance for lower-income employers to get equipment they need to improve safety for workers, such as mechanical lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles, whose roots are in the labor movement, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. She plans to introduce another bill next month that would fulfill those recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s confident that this bill will pass, now that the building blocks have been laid by the newly issued guidelines and policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to adjust. We can’t be living in the past. And this is definitely a legacy of slavery,” said Durazo. “We’ve got to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"House cleaners and other domestic workers have long been excluded from state government-enforced health and safety protections. Advocates say new voluntary industry guidelines are a critical step forward.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1675363679,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1605},"headData":{"title":"'A Legacy of Slavery': For Domestic Workers, California's New Safety Guidelines Are Long Overdue, Say Advocates | KQED","description":"House cleaners and other domestic workers have long been excluded from state government-enforced health and safety protections. Advocates say new voluntary industry guidelines are a critical step forward.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'A Legacy of Slavery': For Domestic Workers, California's New Safety Guidelines Are Long Overdue, Say Advocates","datePublished":"2023-02-01T00:04:26.000Z","dateModified":"2023-02-02T18:47:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/8cc6d74c-b3d3-4471-8f92-af9a011dc70b/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11939848/a-legacy-of-slavery-for-domestic-workers-californias-new-safety-guidelines-are-long-overdue-say-advocates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2017, about a week after the massive Tubbs wildfire destroyed parts of Santa Rosa, house cleaner Socorro Diaz got a call from one of her clients. They asked her to work at their home, which was still standing next to incinerated buildings in the Fountaingrove neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Diaz arrived, she found the house full of ash. She said she didn’t have a proper mask or gloves to clean what she would soon realize was toxic residue. And after days of handling and breathing it in, her skin itched, her head hurt and her nose bled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11810305,news_11886628,news_11900049"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The sensation of the air, of breathing, hurt inside my nose,” said Diaz, 42, a mother of three children. “The smell was toxic, harmful, and I didn’t really have the right equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state \u003ca href=\"https://www.easylawlookup.com/California-Law/Labor-Code/par-6114/_easylookup.blp?GO=Prepare&site=easy&print=&data=labor&p_start=319&p_end=339&p_para=6114&p_epara=7598&par=6114&displayer=YES#:~:text=6303.,agency%20other%20than%20the%20division.\">labor law\u003c/a>, employers of domestic service workers are not required to provide equipment or other conditions for a safe workplace, as is the case in other industries. That’s because household domestic service is not legally considered a form of “employment” — a remnant of slavery and sexist policies, according to historians. But stories like Diaz’s propelled a multiyear effort to gain full protections for this workforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">estimated at more than 358,000 people (PDF)\u003c/a>, most of whom are immigrant women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California has issued new voluntary industry guidelines for people who employ domestic workers, to prevent injuries and illness. Worker advocates say it’s a critical step to eventually end the exclusion of cleaners, nannies, home care aides and day laborers — who work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/Literature-Review-2022.pdf\">over 2 million California households (PDF)\u003c/a> — from bedrock workplace regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">safety guidance (PDF)\u003c/a>, published on Jan. 20, is the first in the nation to specifically cover the home as a workplace, say occupational health and safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recognizing paid household labor as work worthy of protections, which is very historic,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/eileen-boris\">Eileen Boris\u003c/a>, an author of several history books on home caregivers and other domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a Latina woman in a pink shirt and vest with her hair pulled back, sitting with serious look on her face at an outdoor table\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/024_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz sits outside a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boris and house cleaner Diaz both were part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/House-Domestic/advisory-comm.html\">statewide advisory committee\u003c/a> made up of employers, workers, advocates and occupational safety experts who worked alongside state regulators to produce the official guidelines. The committee’s task was mandated by a recent law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB321\">SB 321\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic service employees \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=gc_pubs\">often report job-related sickness or injury\u003c/a> from exposure to toxic cleaning chemicals, contagious illnesses like COVID-19 and ergonomic hazards. Because of back injuries, home attendants have injury rates comparable to those of construction workers, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidelines outline best practices for employers — including not to expect domestic workers to clean ash from wildfires, fix roofs, trim tall trees, clear out pest infestations or do any work that requires specialized equipment or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers also are urged to prevent injuries and illness by labeling toxic substances in a language the worker understands; creating an emergency preparedness plan for earthquakes or wildfires; offering puncture-resistant gloves to caregivers who handle needles; and removing electrical cords, wrinkled carpets and other tripping hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not anti-employer guidelines,” said Boris, who has hired a house cleaner for many years. “These guidelines are to make a safe home space for all who live or work within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people is seen protesting, with a woman in the foreground holding an orange sign that reads 'Domestic workers are essential'\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-800x518.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1020x661.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-160x104.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM-1536x995.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-02-at-10.02.52-AM.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domestic workers march to amplify their demands for health and safety protections in the workplace via Senate Bill 321 in Los Angeles on May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Brooke Anderson/California Domestic Worker Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, any complaints by domestic workers that reach state job safety and health regulators will likely not be pursued, said a spokesperson with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees those regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, has jurisdiction over most workers — but not those engaged in domestic work. The exclusion is baked into the definition of “employment” in the state’s Labor Code 6303, which defines it as any trade, enterprise or occupation in which a person works for hire, “except household domestic service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the work is household domestic service, Cal/OSHA lacks the jurisdiction to issue citations,” said the DIR spokesperson, who declined to be named. “If the work is outside the household domestic service exception — for example, major construction work that includes adding a new bedroom — the Division would have jurisdiction to investigate and issue citations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal OSHA does cover some domestic service employees: those who are hired by a company, but not those \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1975/1975.6\">hired privately by an individual\u003c/a> to work at their residence. In California, covered employees could report problems to that agency, but only if they work in areas of federal jurisdiction, such as U.S. military installations or national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees hired by a company which is employing them in areas of federal jurisdiction in California can complain to federal OSHA about accidents or hazards and we will evaluate the info and take appropriate action, which could include an investigation,” said Mike Petersen, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various exemptions of domestic workers from basic health and safety protections at the federal level and in most states is a legacy of slavery, when African American people were made to do unpaid domestic labor, and of sexism, which devalues work traditionally done by women, said Boris, a UC Santa Barbara professor of feminist studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the waist down wearing blue rubber gloves picking up cleaning supplies from a red bucket\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/009_KQED_DomesticWorkerSocorroDiaz_01232023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socorro Diaz grabs cleaning solution during a house-cleaning job in Occidental. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domestic workers were excluded from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. law that granted workers the nation’s first minimum wage and overtime pay. That omission continued into the early 1970s, when federal OSHA and its counterpart Cal/OSHA were created. It wasn’t until 1976 that the state began granting minimum wage and other labor protections to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadomesticworkers.org/about/our-history/#:~:text=In%201976%2C%20California%20passed%20a,seniors%20and%20people%20with%20disabilities.\">some categories of domestic employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California domestic workers have gained rights to overtime pay, paid sick leave and worker’s compensation benefits if they get injured on the job. But they continue to be excluded from state health and safety rules. Major obstacles to changing that have been concerns about privacy and anxiety over the weight of government regulation in the home, said Boris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">SB 1257\u003c/a>, that would have extended state occupational health and safety protections to domestic workers. In his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1257\">veto message\u003c/a>, Newsom cited concerns that the proposed legislation would add millions of homes to the jurisdiction of Cal/OSHA — a severely understaffed agency — and would be too onerous for employers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today's world.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Kimberly Alvarenga, director, California Domestic Workers Coalition","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I strongly share the belief of the bill's author and proponents that, like all other California workers, domestic service employees deserve protections to ensure that their workplaces are safe and healthy,” Newsom said. “However, new laws in this area must recognize that the places where people live cannot be treated in the exact same manner as a traditional workplace or worksite from a regulatory perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Republican state senators who voted against that bill, including Sens. Brian Dahle, Scott Wilk and Shannon Grove, declined requests for comment about their concerns with the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, workers and advocates tried again to get legislators to strike the exemption from state law. After negotiations with Newsom, the measure that was ultimately enacted created the new voluntary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates wanted a law with more teeth, but they say they hope the voluntary guidance will be a first step toward allowing domestic workers to enjoy protections equal to those of other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the guidelines identify which labor standards apply to the home and how, said Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is leading the path to finally granting workers what they deserve, and putting the nails in outdated policies that should not exist in today's world,” said Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a blazer and sunglasses is seen clapping outside at a protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1244809469-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. María Elena Durazo, seen here at a rally in support of striking fast-food cooks and cashiers in Los Angeles and Orange counties, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SB 321 advisory committee that developed the safety guidelines also issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Policy-Recommendations-SB-321.pdf\">policy recommendations (PDF)\u003c/a> for the state Legislature and workplace regulators. Those include removing the household domestic services exclusion from the California Labor Code and establishing financial assistance for lower-income employers to get equipment they need to improve safety for workers, such as mechanical lifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles, whose roots are in the labor movement, authored SB 321 and SB 1257. She plans to introduce another bill next month that would fulfill those recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s confident that this bill will pass, now that the building blocks have been laid by the newly issued guidelines and policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to adjust. We can’t be living in the past. And this is definitely a legacy of slavery,” said Durazo. “We’ve got to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11939848/a-legacy-of-slavery-for-domestic-workers-californias-new-safety-guidelines-are-long-overdue-say-advocates","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6145","news_5043","news_26115","news_27626","news_31387","news_29881","news_23063"],"featImg":"news_11939858","label":"news"},"news_11932758":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11932758","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11932758","score":null,"sort":[1669079671000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese","title":"'Health and Safety Are at Risk': Only 1 California Safety Inspector Is Bilingual in Chinese or Vietnamese","publishDate":1669079671,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the nearly 30 years since Thomas Xiao arrived in San Francisco, he said he’s seen co-workers get injured at restaurants, factories and other jobs. Xiao himself suffered tendons that tore apart in his right shoulder in 2019, a stress injury he believes came from tossing a heavy frier with potatoes over and over for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became really painful. I couldn’t even lift my hand,” Xiao said in Cantonese through an interpreter with the Chinese Progressive Association, a nonprofit in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until recently, the 66-year-old Chinese immigrant never considered filing a complaint with California regulators tasked with protecting health and safety in the workplace. Xiao, who now works as a janitor, said he didn’t know Cal/OSHA existed, let alone that the agency can investigate workplace hazards like repetitive-motion injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the country’s most linguistically diverse states, Cal/OSHA officials maintain that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/reports/State-OSHA-Annual-Report-(SOAR)-FY-2021.pdf\">high priority (PDF)\u003c/a> is “direct communication” with workers who have limited English proficiency. Because of a lack of English skills or legal status, many immigrants work some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013714\">most dangerous low-wage jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s critical services remain largely inaccessible to those very laborers, leaving them less protected, according to labor experts and worker advocates. A substantial issue is the agency’s woefully insufficient number of bilingual safety inspectors who are required to interview employees while investigating complaints, injuries or deaths at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even though \u003ca href=\"https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/government-code/gov-sect-11135.html\">state\u003c/a> and federal \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/04/DFEH-Language-Access-Implementation-Plan.pdf\">laws (PDF)\u003c/a> require public agencies like Cal/OSHA, officially known as the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to take reasonable steps to provide full and equal access to their services to people who don’t speak English well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11933334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png\" alt=\"A table showing the number of Cal/OSHA bilingual-certified inspectors and the estimated number of LEP workers.\" width=\"2276\" height=\"1110\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png 2276w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-800x390.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1020x497.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-160x78.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1536x749.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-2048x999.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1920x936.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2276px) 100vw, 2276px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s language access gaps are especially pronounced for workers in the state’s large Asian communities, particularly in the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Orange counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis of 2019 census data by the USC \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri\">Equity Research Institute\u003c/a> conducted for KQED shows the state’s most prevalent languages after English and Spanish are Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese, which are spoken by roughly 600,000 combined workers with limited English proficiency or none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 214 inspectors employed by Cal/OSHA, just 21 were certified in a second language as of October, personnel records show. Nineteen were Spanish speakers, while only one was fluent in Cantonese and one in Vietnamese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very surprising, disturbing and disappointing information,” said David Chiu, c\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ity attorney of San Francisco, where more workers speak Chinese at home than Spanish, unlike elsewhere in the state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have literally millions of Californians who speak other languages, who are particularly vulnerable to workplace exploitation, the lack of language ability on the part of Cal/OSHA staff means we don’t know what's happening at these jobs, we can’t enforce the law, and workers’ lives and health and safety are at risk,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA declined interview requests by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11933002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png\" alt=\"A line chart showing the estimated total number of LEP workers in California, 2010-2019\" width=\"2244\" height=\"1434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png 2244w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-800x511.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1020x652.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1536x982.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-2048x1309.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1920x1227.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2244px) 100vw, 2244px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is committed to communicating with workers and employers in their preferred language, said a spokesperson for the California Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees Cal/OSHA and other labor enforcement divisions. Cal/OSHA has additional personnel who speak a second language but are not \u003ca href=\"https://www.dgs.ca.gov/OHR/Resources/Page-Content/Office-of-Human-Resources-Resources-List-Folder/Personnel-Operations-Manual/Bilingual-Pay\">certified as bilingual\u003c/a>, which involves passing an oral fluency exam, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, two former Cal/OSHA inspectors, also known as compliance safety and health officers, told KQED that the inadequate number of bilingual-certified inspectors suggests how ill-equipped the agency is to conduct investigations involving workers who primarily speak languages other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s pretty obvious that they don’t have the same protections as an English-speaking worker,” said Michael Horowitz, a retired Cal/OSHA inspector and enforcement district manager in Oakland. “It’s a lot more difficult for their problems and hazards to be brought clearly to the attention of a state health and safety inspector.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2019, Cal/OSHA has lost about a third of its bilingual-certified inspectors, all Spanish speakers, according to a KQED analysis of agency rosters of employees paid a monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.dgs.ca.gov/OHR/Resources/Page-Content/Office-of-Human-Resources-Resources-List-Folder/Personnel-Operations-Manual/Bilingual-Pay\">bilingual premium\u003c/a> after they are certified in another language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last month, just 5% of the agency’s total 964 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2022-23EN/#/Department/7350\">budgeted positions\u003c/a>, including outreach workers, managers and legal secretaries, were filled with personnel receiving bilingual pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the number of California workers with limited English proficiency has climbed to 3.4 million — nearly 1 in 5 of the state’s labor force, according to the USC Equity Research Institute analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11932762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a middle-aged man.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Xiao, 66, stands at The Women's Building in San Francisco, after attending a town hall for essential workers on Sept. 28, 2022. Xiao, who works as a janitor, said he had never heard of Cal/OSHA until recently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Using the estimated number of workers who speak other languages at home but report limited English proficiency, KQED calculated a rough ratio of inspectors who can communicate fluently with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese-speaking workers experience the largest access gap, with one inspector certified in Cantonese for every 309,000 workers. For Vietnamese-speaking employees, Cal/OSHA has one inspector for every 167,000 workers. And for Spanish speakers, there is one inspector for every 124,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from ideal when compared to other states, the ratio of safety and health compliance officers for workers who speak English as a native language or very well is much more protective: one inspector for every 72,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A lot is lost in translation'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many immigrant employees in high-risk industries are reluctant to speak up to inspectors about problems they’ve witnessed because they fear losing their jobs or distrust government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If inspectors are unable to chat directly with workers and gain their trust, they may miss serious health and safety hazards, said Horowitz, who worked for Cal/OSHA for more than 17 years. Effective investigations could eventually lead to fines for employers and safer conditions for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz said inspectors may rely on a foreman or manager to interpret, but workers will be less likely to speak candidly if their boss is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not a good situation to get a true picture of what the workplace hazards might be,” said Horowitz. “A lot is lost in translation. Clearly money could be spent on it, but it’s certainly not a priority that I’ve seen in the state.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kent Wong, director, UCLA Labor Center\"]'It is the responsibility of the state of California to ensure that perpetual lawbreakers are brought to justice, and that is not happening. And until you have enough bilingual inspectors to address the labor law violations in the state of California, including health and safety violations, these conditions will continue.'[/pullquote]Cal/OSHA does contract with interpreting services available by phone, but interactions can be clunky and awkward because, according to Horowitz, the inspector often communicates with the interpreter while passing a phone back and forth with the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, 26 Cal/OSHA staffers passed the state’s language certification exam. That number increased to 65 by 2019, but plunged to 48 bilingual-certified staffers as of last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have enough inspectors who speak the language of the workers, that leads to an incomplete investigation,” said Assembly member Ash Kalra (D-San José), who heads the Assembly’s Committee on Labor and Employment. “We have to work harder to ensure we are doing everything we can to properly recruit and retain those who do have language skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Challenges to recruiting bilingual staffers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With 29% of positions vacant at Cal/OSHA as of October, agency officials said they are focused first on hiring qualified staff. Any second-language skills are a bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We diligently seek to hire a diverse and inclusive workforce, and are particularly interested in attracting bilingual candidates,” the DIR spokesperson said. “But, of course, our first priority is to hire qualified safety and health professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many employers are experiencing, it is challenging to recruit and retain qualified professionals with experience and, in our case, that is especially true for safety engineers and industrial hygienists with expertise in health and safety,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inspectors and other observers point out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913910/despite-record-budget-surplus-california-unlikely-to-fix-massive-wage-theft-claim-delays-anytime-soon\">DIR has been especially slow to hire\u003c/a> in a challenging labor market where bilingual professionals can get a job faster in the private sector, which also tends to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make the agency more competitive, the Legislature and the administration must “put money where their values are,” said Kalra, adding that he is planning to hold hearings next year to try to find solutions to fill vacancies at Cal/OSHA and improve language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we have to not just pay more, but do other kinds of incentives to be able to hire,” said Kalra, whose district includes Little Saigon in Santa Clara County, home to the state’s second-largest Vietnamese-speaking community. “And part of that falls on the Legislature to make sure the administration is prioritizing these roles in Cal/OSHA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Hagen, DIR's director, told occupational safety advocates at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Calosha-Advisory-Meetings/Agenda.2022-Nov-10.pdf\">public meeting (PDF)\u003c/a> earlier this month that the department is reviewing their levels of bilingual-certified staffing, as well as the cultural competence of web content and materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the agency continues to leave many lower-wage workers in the garment industry, agriculture, construction, food processing and other sectors laboring in risky conditions. They toil without protective equipment while being exposed to toxics or excessive heat. They often slog through long hours bent over in positions that hurt the body over time, according to Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of the state of California to ensure that perpetual lawbreakers are brought to justice, and that is not happening,” said Wong. “And until you have enough bilingual inspectors to address the labor law violations in the state of California, including health and safety violations, these conditions will continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, Mong Thu Pham, a 62-year-old nail salon worker, worries that daily exposure to acetone and other harmful chemicals at her job has led to her frequent headaches, runny nose and, more recently, blurred eyesight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four, who didn’t know Cal/OSHA existed until recently, has worked at nail salons for 13 years. She said she believes more Vietnamese-speaking inspectors are needed to help improve conditions at workplaces like hers. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NAILFILES_2019jan09_FINAL_5a.pdf\">nearly 70% of the workforce in the nail salon industry are immigrants from Vietnam (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a UCLA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not fair, because a lot of workers at nail salons don’t speak a lot of English, and it’s very difficult for them to complain or try to alert the authorities,” Pham said in Vietnamese through an interpreter at the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative. “I wish someone could stop by at the shop and help make the environment less toxic for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Civil Rights Department, the state agency charged with protecting Californians from discrimination in public services, is currently working on regulations that are expected to provide more specific guidelines for public agencies to meet language access statutes, said Joann Lee, special counsel on language justice at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. The department did not return requests for comment on when it plans to issue those regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of language access on a systemic level leads people to be so completely shut out that they are almost not even seen or considered when new outreach, programs or technologies are created,” said Lee, who speaks Korean and has provided legal services to Asian immigrants for decades. “The cause of their exclusion is also the cause of the silence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (Nov. 28): Mandarin, rather than Cantonese, was incorrectly listed among the languages in an initial version of the chart \"Cal/OSHA Bilingual Certified Inspectors.\" The error has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Of the 214 inspectors employed by Cal/OSHA, just 21 were certified in a second language as of October, personnel records show. 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Nineteen were Spanish speakers, while only one was fluent in Cantonese and one in Vietnamese.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Health and Safety Are at Risk': Only 1 California Safety Inspector Is Bilingual in Chinese or Vietnamese","datePublished":"2022-11-22T01:14:31.000Z","dateModified":"2022-11-28T22:37:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11932758 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11932758","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/11/21/health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese/","disqusTitle":"'Health and Safety Are at Risk': Only 1 California Safety Inspector Is Bilingual in Chinese or Vietnamese","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/99c03b8e-c4cb-4447-babb-af5401185d24/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11932758/health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the nearly 30 years since Thomas Xiao arrived in San Francisco, he said he’s seen co-workers get injured at restaurants, factories and other jobs. Xiao himself suffered tendons that tore apart in his right shoulder in 2019, a stress injury he believes came from tossing a heavy frier with potatoes over and over for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became really painful. I couldn’t even lift my hand,” Xiao said in Cantonese through an interpreter with the Chinese Progressive Association, a nonprofit in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until recently, the 66-year-old Chinese immigrant never considered filing a complaint with California regulators tasked with protecting health and safety in the workplace. Xiao, who now works as a janitor, said he didn’t know Cal/OSHA existed, let alone that the agency can investigate workplace hazards like repetitive-motion injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the country’s most linguistically diverse states, Cal/OSHA officials maintain that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/reports/State-OSHA-Annual-Report-(SOAR)-FY-2021.pdf\">high priority (PDF)\u003c/a> is “direct communication” with workers who have limited English proficiency. Because of a lack of English skills or legal status, many immigrants work some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013714\">most dangerous low-wage jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s critical services remain largely inaccessible to those very laborers, leaving them less protected, according to labor experts and worker advocates. A substantial issue is the agency’s woefully insufficient number of bilingual safety inspectors who are required to interview employees while investigating complaints, injuries or deaths at worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even though \u003ca href=\"https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/government-code/gov-sect-11135.html\">state\u003c/a> and federal \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/04/DFEH-Language-Access-Implementation-Plan.pdf\">laws (PDF)\u003c/a> require public agencies like Cal/OSHA, officially known as the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to take reasonable steps to provide full and equal access to their services to people who don’t speak English well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11933334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png\" alt=\"A table showing the number of Cal/OSHA bilingual-certified inspectors and the estimated number of LEP workers.\" width=\"2276\" height=\"1110\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM.png 2276w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-800x390.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1020x497.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-160x78.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1536x749.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-2048x999.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-2.35.53-PM-1920x936.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2276px) 100vw, 2276px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA’s language access gaps are especially pronounced for workers in the state’s large Asian communities, particularly in the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Orange counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis of 2019 census data by the USC \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri\">Equity Research Institute\u003c/a> conducted for KQED shows the state’s most prevalent languages after English and Spanish are Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese, which are spoken by roughly 600,000 combined workers with limited English proficiency or none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 214 inspectors employed by Cal/OSHA, just 21 were certified in a second language as of October, personnel records show. Nineteen were Spanish speakers, while only one was fluent in Cantonese and one in Vietnamese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very surprising, disturbing and disappointing information,” said David Chiu, c\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ity attorney of San Francisco, where more workers speak Chinese at home than Spanish, unlike elsewhere in the state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have literally millions of Californians who speak other languages, who are particularly vulnerable to workplace exploitation, the lack of language ability on the part of Cal/OSHA staff means we don’t know what's happening at these jobs, we can’t enforce the law, and workers’ lives and health and safety are at risk,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA declined interview requests by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11933002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png\" alt=\"A line chart showing the estimated total number of LEP workers in California, 2010-2019\" width=\"2244\" height=\"1434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM.png 2244w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-800x511.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1020x652.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1536x982.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-2048x1309.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-21-at-4.33.00-PM-1920x1227.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2244px) 100vw, 2244px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is committed to communicating with workers and employers in their preferred language, said a spokesperson for the California Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees Cal/OSHA and other labor enforcement divisions. Cal/OSHA has additional personnel who speak a second language but are not \u003ca href=\"https://www.dgs.ca.gov/OHR/Resources/Page-Content/Office-of-Human-Resources-Resources-List-Folder/Personnel-Operations-Manual/Bilingual-Pay\">certified as bilingual\u003c/a>, which involves passing an oral fluency exam, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, two former Cal/OSHA inspectors, also known as compliance safety and health officers, told KQED that the inadequate number of bilingual-certified inspectors suggests how ill-equipped the agency is to conduct investigations involving workers who primarily speak languages other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s pretty obvious that they don’t have the same protections as an English-speaking worker,” said Michael Horowitz, a retired Cal/OSHA inspector and enforcement district manager in Oakland. “It’s a lot more difficult for their problems and hazards to be brought clearly to the attention of a state health and safety inspector.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2019, Cal/OSHA has lost about a third of its bilingual-certified inspectors, all Spanish speakers, according to a KQED analysis of agency rosters of employees paid a monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.dgs.ca.gov/OHR/Resources/Page-Content/Office-of-Human-Resources-Resources-List-Folder/Personnel-Operations-Manual/Bilingual-Pay\">bilingual premium\u003c/a> after they are certified in another language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last month, just 5% of the agency’s total 964 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2022-23EN/#/Department/7350\">budgeted positions\u003c/a>, including outreach workers, managers and legal secretaries, were filled with personnel receiving bilingual pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the number of California workers with limited English proficiency has climbed to 3.4 million — nearly 1 in 5 of the state’s labor force, according to the USC Equity Research Institute analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11932762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a middle-aged man.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60292_IMG_2590-Thomas-Xiao-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Xiao, 66, stands at The Women's Building in San Francisco, after attending a town hall for essential workers on Sept. 28, 2022. Xiao, who works as a janitor, said he had never heard of Cal/OSHA until recently. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Using the estimated number of workers who speak other languages at home but report limited English proficiency, KQED calculated a rough ratio of inspectors who can communicate fluently with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese-speaking workers experience the largest access gap, with one inspector certified in Cantonese for every 309,000 workers. For Vietnamese-speaking employees, Cal/OSHA has one inspector for every 167,000 workers. And for Spanish speakers, there is one inspector for every 124,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from ideal when compared to other states, the ratio of safety and health compliance officers for workers who speak English as a native language or very well is much more protective: one inspector for every 72,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A lot is lost in translation'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many immigrant employees in high-risk industries are reluctant to speak up to inspectors about problems they’ve witnessed because they fear losing their jobs or distrust government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If inspectors are unable to chat directly with workers and gain their trust, they may miss serious health and safety hazards, said Horowitz, who worked for Cal/OSHA for more than 17 years. Effective investigations could eventually lead to fines for employers and safer conditions for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz said inspectors may rely on a foreman or manager to interpret, but workers will be less likely to speak candidly if their boss is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not a good situation to get a true picture of what the workplace hazards might be,” said Horowitz. “A lot is lost in translation. Clearly money could be spent on it, but it’s certainly not a priority that I’ve seen in the state.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is the responsibility of the state of California to ensure that perpetual lawbreakers are brought to justice, and that is not happening. And until you have enough bilingual inspectors to address the labor law violations in the state of California, including health and safety violations, these conditions will continue.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Kent Wong, director, UCLA Labor Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cal/OSHA does contract with interpreting services available by phone, but interactions can be clunky and awkward because, according to Horowitz, the inspector often communicates with the interpreter while passing a phone back and forth with the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, 26 Cal/OSHA staffers passed the state’s language certification exam. That number increased to 65 by 2019, but plunged to 48 bilingual-certified staffers as of last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have enough inspectors who speak the language of the workers, that leads to an incomplete investigation,” said Assembly member Ash Kalra (D-San José), who heads the Assembly’s Committee on Labor and Employment. “We have to work harder to ensure we are doing everything we can to properly recruit and retain those who do have language skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Challenges to recruiting bilingual staffers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With 29% of positions vacant at Cal/OSHA as of October, agency officials said they are focused first on hiring qualified staff. Any second-language skills are a bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We diligently seek to hire a diverse and inclusive workforce, and are particularly interested in attracting bilingual candidates,” the DIR spokesperson said. “But, of course, our first priority is to hire qualified safety and health professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many employers are experiencing, it is challenging to recruit and retain qualified professionals with experience and, in our case, that is especially true for safety engineers and industrial hygienists with expertise in health and safety,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inspectors and other observers point out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913910/despite-record-budget-surplus-california-unlikely-to-fix-massive-wage-theft-claim-delays-anytime-soon\">DIR has been especially slow to hire\u003c/a> in a challenging labor market where bilingual professionals can get a job faster in the private sector, which also tends to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make the agency more competitive, the Legislature and the administration must “put money where their values are,” said Kalra, adding that he is planning to hold hearings next year to try to find solutions to fill vacancies at Cal/OSHA and improve language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we have to not just pay more, but do other kinds of incentives to be able to hire,” said Kalra, whose district includes Little Saigon in Santa Clara County, home to the state’s second-largest Vietnamese-speaking community. “And part of that falls on the Legislature to make sure the administration is prioritizing these roles in Cal/OSHA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Hagen, DIR's director, told occupational safety advocates at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Calosha-Advisory-Meetings/Agenda.2022-Nov-10.pdf\">public meeting (PDF)\u003c/a> earlier this month that the department is reviewing their levels of bilingual-certified staffing, as well as the cultural competence of web content and materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the agency continues to leave many lower-wage workers in the garment industry, agriculture, construction, food processing and other sectors laboring in risky conditions. They toil without protective equipment while being exposed to toxics or excessive heat. They often slog through long hours bent over in positions that hurt the body over time, according to Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of the state of California to ensure that perpetual lawbreakers are brought to justice, and that is not happening,” said Wong. “And until you have enough bilingual inspectors to address the labor law violations in the state of California, including health and safety violations, these conditions will continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, Mong Thu Pham, a 62-year-old nail salon worker, worries that daily exposure to acetone and other harmful chemicals at her job has led to her frequent headaches, runny nose and, more recently, blurred eyesight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four, who didn’t know Cal/OSHA existed until recently, has worked at nail salons for 13 years. She said she believes more Vietnamese-speaking inspectors are needed to help improve conditions at workplaces like hers. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NAILFILES_2019jan09_FINAL_5a.pdf\">nearly 70% of the workforce in the nail salon industry are immigrants from Vietnam (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a UCLA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not fair, because a lot of workers at nail salons don’t speak a lot of English, and it’s very difficult for them to complain or try to alert the authorities,” Pham said in Vietnamese through an interpreter at the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative. “I wish someone could stop by at the shop and help make the environment less toxic for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Civil Rights Department, the state agency charged with protecting Californians from discrimination in public services, is currently working on regulations that are expected to provide more specific guidelines for public agencies to meet language access statutes, said Joann Lee, special counsel on language justice at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. The department did not return requests for comment on when it plans to issue those regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of language access on a systemic level leads people to be so completely shut out that they are almost not even seen or considered when new outreach, programs or technologies are created,” said Lee, who speaks Korean and has provided legal services to Asian immigrants for decades. “The cause of their exclusion is also the cause of the silence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (Nov. 28): Mandarin, rather than Cantonese, was incorrectly listed among the languages in an initial version of the chart \"Cal/OSHA Bilingual Certified Inspectors.\" The error has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11932758/health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32026","news_5043","news_27626","news_19904","news_32027","news_32025"],"featImg":"news_11932765","label":"news"},"news_11886628":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886628","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886628","score":null,"sort":[1662555622000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun","title":"Feeling the Heat: How Outdoor Workers Can Advocate for Safer Conditions on the Job","publishDate":1662555622,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Feeling the Heat: How Outdoor Workers Can Advocate for Safer Conditions on the Job | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955907/derechos-laborales-ola-de-calor\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#protections\">\u003cstrong>If I work outside in California, what protections do I have during dangerously hot weather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#talk\">\u003cstrong>How should I talk to my employer about these protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#still\">\u003cstrong>What can I do if my employer still doesn’t provide these protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#report\">\u003cstrong>What can I do if my employer retaliated against me for speaking up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#options\">\u003cstrong>What are my other options here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is experiencing an intense heat wave this September with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1567316722000207872\">several cities registering all-time record temperatures\u003c/a>. On September 6, San José reached 109 degrees, while Santa Rosa topped 115 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some residents are able to work in air-conditioned offices or homes to avoid the worst of the heat, many essential workers — including construction workers, farm laborers and delivery people — have to remain outdoors, exposed to the most intense heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers are legally required to provide all outdoor workers with four things to prevent heat-related illness: access to fresh water, shade, breaks and an emergency response plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But KQED has spoken to various outdoor workers who say that bringing up their rights with their employer isn’t so easy. For some, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">the risk of losing their job for speaking up against an unsafe workplace is always present\u003c/a> while others are unsure whether they are eligible for these protections due to their contract or immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/english.html\">rules established by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> (Cal/OSHA) that are meant to protect all outdoor employees in California, regardless of their immigration or employment status. But still, that doesn’t make some workers feel any more comfortable talking to their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a real concern,” said David Hornung, Cal/OSHA’s heat and agriculture program coordinator: “workers not wanting to ask for their worker protections because of their concern of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re working outside during a heat wave and your employer isn’t providing you with the required protections, there are a number of things you can do, even if you don’t feel comfortable bringing things up directly with your supervisor.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"protections\">\u003c/a>What are the Cal/OSHA protections?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July 2006, a major \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/epic/impacts-biological-systems/heat-related-mortality-and-morbidity\">heat wave in California resulted in at least 140 deaths\u003c/a> over two weeks, the highest fatality rate on record from a single heat event, prompting state regulators to strengthen protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='california-workers']“The employer must provide drinking water that is fresh, cool and free so that each worker has a sufficient amount to drink,” said Angela Yahaira Breining, a staff attorney with the Workers’ Rights program at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California defines a “sufficient” drinking supply as at least one quart of water per hour. And even if workers bring their own water bottles, employers must still have enough water available on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise above 80 degrees, employers must also provide an area with enough shade to accommodate every worker on-site. But, Breining adds, workers also have the right to request breaks in the shade — regardless of temperature — whenever they feel the need to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when temperatures rise over 95 degrees, “employers or supervisors must observe these employees regularly,” Breining said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a supervisor on-site, she explains, is key to setting up a communication system that can swing into action if a worker starts to feel sick. “If someone is getting a headache, having them sit down, making sure that there is a safe way of communicating with higher-ups, and having an emergency plan in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting up an emergency plan is the next requirement for employers, says Hornung from Cal/OSHA. That includes “training for all the employees so they recognize the signs and symptoms of heat illness in themselves or in their co-workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11886992 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man, face concealed by a tarp, sit surrounded by bundles of dried red beans, shelling them into a bucket in his lap.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor sitting in the back of a tarp-covered truck in San Francisco’s Mission District shells beans on Aug. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Whom do these heat protections apply to?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A misconception Hornung says he often hears is that Cal/OSHA rules only apply to certain industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It applies to all outdoor workers, not just agriculture,” he said. “It applies to construction workers, gardeners, landscapers, maintenance people and anyone driving around in trucks that don’t have air-conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another common misconception, Hornung adds, is that the protections apply only to citizens or employees with valid immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11878134\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49883_GettyImages-1270893851-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]“California law for workplace safety is great because it protects all workers regardless of immigration status,” he said. “So whether you are here with the right papers or not, you are still protected by our regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for people who work informally, things are a bit trickier and often depend on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hornung explains that Cal/OSHA first needs to verify that there is an “employee-employer relationship” — in other words, that the worker has provided labor in exchange for payment. This can include workers who lack a formal contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an employee is paid by an employer, then that establishes an employer-employee relationship,” said Hornung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the heat protections don’t apply to someone who is self-employed through an informal business, like fruit cart owners who sell their own produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"talk\">\u003c/a>If my boss is not following Cal/OSHA regulations, how should I bring it up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although it may be difficult for some workers to approach their supervisors, California labor laws prohibit employers from retaliating against workers who raise concerns about unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlawful for an employer to retaliate against this — speaking about a workplace right they are entitled to,” said Breining, the workers’ rights attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recommends workers document in writing everything that’s going on, including keeping track of the dates and places that their bosses haven’t followed regulations. And she suggests workers also address their employers in writing, in the form of a text message, an email or a traditional letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Specifically say what it is that you are requesting,” she said. “Are you requesting for the employer to provide training, to see what the heat illness prevention plan is or to request these cooldown breaks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documenting every time an employer does not follow heat regulations can be useful later on if a worker decides to file a complaint with Cal/OSHA, Breining says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Hornung suggests that workers who fear immediate retaliation first discuss the issue with their peers to build additional support. “So rather than you as an individual asking your boss, try to get your co-workers to ask as a group,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the fact that retaliation is illegal doesn’t prevent an employer from retaliating against workers who speak up against an unsafe workplace, says Cynthia Rice, director of litigation, advocacy and training at California Rural Legal Assistance, a group that provides free legal aid to agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never say the employer can’t retaliate against you because of course the employer can retaliate against you,” she told KQED. If you believe your employer fired you or cut your hours or wages because you spoke up for a safe workplace, \u003ca href=\"#report\">\u003cstrong>you can report this behavior to labor officials, who can start an investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11887210 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Clear plastic tubs of brightly colored fruit beneath an awning, with a city block in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor sells cut fruit underneath an umbrella in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"still\">\u003c/a>My boss didn’t listen to me. What do I do now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an employer is still unwilling to provide required heat protections, the next step may be to file a complaint with Cal/OSHA, a process that can be completed anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has several Bay Area field offices workers can contact directly to file a report, based on where their work sites are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco workers can call (415) 557-0100.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County workers can call the Foster City office at (650) 573-3812. This office also accommodates workers in some Santa Clara locations, including Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most workers in Santa Clara County can call the Fremont office at (510) 794-2521.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alameda County workers can call the Oakland office at (510) 622-2916.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>North Bay workers — in Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin and Contra Costa counties — can call the American Canyon office at (707) 649-3700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s also a statewide heat help line, which offers assistance in both English and Spanish (and can connect workers to assistance in other languages): (833) 579-0927.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When filing a complaint, you’ll be asked questions about your employer or company, including the name, location and number of workers on site, how many hours you work in a day and what the safety issue is. This is when having a written record of past incidents or requests is especially useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While providing your name is optional, Hornung from Cal/OSHA says that if you provide your contact information, you can be notified when the report was received and if Cal/OSHA will look into the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Cal/OSHA takes up your case, the agency will assign an inspector to your work site who will speak to both employers and employees. Hornung says the inspection can take up to six months, although it often takes less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11887034 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of a worker's hands shelling long beans.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor takes shelter from the sun while shelling beans in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2021. David Hornung from Cal/OSHA says that state heat protections apply to every person who works outdoors — not just agricultural workers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If there were any violations of the California code of regulations,” he said, “then the employer would be cited for those violations and those citations would have a monetary penalty.” The employer would also have to resolve whatever issue is putting workers at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"report\">\u003c/a>If your employer decides to retaliate against you during this time and either threatens you, cuts your hours or fires you, that’s grounds for a retaliation complaint with the state Labor Commissioner’s Office. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/rci_osha_complaint.htm\">file a retaliation complaint online\u003c/a>; by calling (714) 558-4913; or through \u003ca href=\"mailto:oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\">email\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [your employer] retaliates against you, you have a remedy,” said Breining. “They can reinstate you, there’s penalties for retaliation, there’s back wages you can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an agricultural worker, another option is filing an unfair labor practice charge against your employer with the state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB). The ALRB investigates potential unfair labor practices including retaliation by an employer against a worker who reports unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two workers must come together to file a charge with the ALRB. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2018/05/alrb_form38_en.pdf\">file a charge using this form\u003c/a> and then send it, either though the mail or fax, to the closest ALRB office. In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/contact-us/\">the regional ALRB office is in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>606 Healdsburg Avenue\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa, CA 95401\u003cbr>\nPhone: (707) 527-3256\u003cbr>\nFax: (707) 576-2360\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"options\">\u003c/a>What are my other options?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">workers at an Oakland fast food restaurant filed a workplace COVID-19 safety complaint\u003c/a> with Cal/OSHA against their employer, alleging unsafe working conditions Agency officials responded nine months later saying no violations had been found — even as the employees who filed the original report claim that inspectors never reached out to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11875988\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49630_GettyImages-1231067411-qut-1020x600.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/cal-osha-response-covid-complaints/\">Understaffing has plagued Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> for years, and that has only been exacerbated during the pandemic, limiting the agency’s ability to investigate claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\">the agency has already issued hundreds of citations this year\u003c/a> to employers who have not adhered to workplace regulations — so filing a claim can in some cases produce an outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are additional steps you can take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining, the workers’ rights attorney, points out that there are multiple legal aid offices around the Bay Area that can support employees throughout the complaint process and offer additional legal assistance, most of the time at no cost — including her office, Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re more than happy to help [workers] make the complaint or help make them make a demand letter if they don’t really want to go through this more formal process,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining adds that in many cases, workers reach out to her office after their employers have already retaliated against them or they have already suffered heat-related illness. While Centro Legal can still provide assistance, she encourages workers to seek aid before things go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prefer to help when it’s actually happening so that you don’t have to do some of the difficult legal processes after the fact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some organizations that offer free legal aid to workers in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: (415) 864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: (415) 896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> (Oakland): (510) 437-1554\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lrcl.org/\">La Raza Centro Legal\u003c/a> (San Francisco): (415) 575-3500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: (415) 621-4155\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://streetlevelhealthproject.org/\">Street Level Health Project\u003c/a>: (510) 533-9906\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://crla.org\">California Rural Legal Assistance\u003c/a>: (800) 337-0690\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Sept. 8, 2021. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A step-by-step guide to asking your employer for protections against the heat. California law mandates protections for all outdoor workers — regardless of immigration status or work arrangement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690844198,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":55,"wordCount":2327},"headData":{"title":"Feeling the Heat: How Outdoor Workers Can Advocate for Safer Conditions on the Job | KQED","description":"A step-by-step guide to asking your employer for protections against the heat. California law mandates protections for all outdoor workers — regardless of immigration status or work arrangement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Feeling the Heat: How Outdoor Workers Can Advocate for Safer Conditions on the Job","datePublished":"2022-09-07T13:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-31T22:56:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955907/derechos-laborales-ola-de-calor\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#protections\">\u003cstrong>If I work outside in California, what protections do I have during dangerously hot weather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#talk\">\u003cstrong>How should I talk to my employer about these protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#still\">\u003cstrong>What can I do if my employer still doesn’t provide these protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#report\">\u003cstrong>What can I do if my employer retaliated against me for speaking up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#options\">\u003cstrong>What are my other options here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is experiencing an intense heat wave this September with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1567316722000207872\">several cities registering all-time record temperatures\u003c/a>. On September 6, San José reached 109 degrees, while Santa Rosa topped 115 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some residents are able to work in air-conditioned offices or homes to avoid the worst of the heat, many essential workers — including construction workers, farm laborers and delivery people — have to remain outdoors, exposed to the most intense heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers are legally required to provide all outdoor workers with four things to prevent heat-related illness: access to fresh water, shade, breaks and an emergency response plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But KQED has spoken to various outdoor workers who say that bringing up their rights with their employer isn’t so easy. For some, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">the risk of losing their job for speaking up against an unsafe workplace is always present\u003c/a> while others are unsure whether they are eligible for these protections due to their contract or immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.99calor.org/english.html\">rules established by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> (Cal/OSHA) that are meant to protect all outdoor employees in California, regardless of their immigration or employment status. But still, that doesn’t make some workers feel any more comfortable talking to their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a real concern,” said David Hornung, Cal/OSHA’s heat and agriculture program coordinator: “workers not wanting to ask for their worker protections because of their concern of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re working outside during a heat wave and your employer isn’t providing you with the required protections, there are a number of things you can do, even if you don’t feel comfortable bringing things up directly with your supervisor.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"protections\">\u003c/a>What are the Cal/OSHA protections?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July 2006, a major \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/epic/impacts-biological-systems/heat-related-mortality-and-morbidity\">heat wave in California resulted in at least 140 deaths\u003c/a> over two weeks, the highest fatality rate on record from a single heat event, prompting state regulators to strengthen protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"california-workers"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The employer must provide drinking water that is fresh, cool and free so that each worker has a sufficient amount to drink,” said Angela Yahaira Breining, a staff attorney with the Workers’ Rights program at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California defines a “sufficient” drinking supply as at least one quart of water per hour. And even if workers bring their own water bottles, employers must still have enough water available on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise above 80 degrees, employers must also provide an area with enough shade to accommodate every worker on-site. But, Breining adds, workers also have the right to request breaks in the shade — regardless of temperature — whenever they feel the need to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when temperatures rise over 95 degrees, “employers or supervisors must observe these employees regularly,” Breining said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a supervisor on-site, she explains, is key to setting up a communication system that can swing into action if a worker starts to feel sick. “If someone is getting a headache, having them sit down, making sure that there is a safe way of communicating with higher-ups, and having an emergency plan in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting up an emergency plan is the next requirement for employers, says Hornung from Cal/OSHA. That includes “training for all the employees so they recognize the signs and symptoms of heat illness in themselves or in their co-workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11886992 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man, face concealed by a tarp, sit surrounded by bundles of dried red beans, shelling them into a bucket in his lap.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50584_007_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor sitting in the back of a tarp-covered truck in San Francisco’s Mission District shells beans on Aug. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Whom do these heat protections apply to?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A misconception Hornung says he often hears is that Cal/OSHA rules only apply to certain industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It applies to all outdoor workers, not just agriculture,” he said. “It applies to construction workers, gardeners, landscapers, maintenance people and anyone driving around in trucks that don’t have air-conditioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another common misconception, Hornung adds, is that the protections apply only to citizens or employees with valid immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11878134","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49883_GettyImages-1270893851-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“California law for workplace safety is great because it protects all workers regardless of immigration status,” he said. “So whether you are here with the right papers or not, you are still protected by our regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for people who work informally, things are a bit trickier and often depend on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hornung explains that Cal/OSHA first needs to verify that there is an “employee-employer relationship” — in other words, that the worker has provided labor in exchange for payment. This can include workers who lack a formal contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an employee is paid by an employer, then that establishes an employer-employee relationship,” said Hornung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the heat protections don’t apply to someone who is self-employed through an informal business, like fruit cart owners who sell their own produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"talk\">\u003c/a>If my boss is not following Cal/OSHA regulations, how should I bring it up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although it may be difficult for some workers to approach their supervisors, California labor laws prohibit employers from retaliating against workers who raise concerns about unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlawful for an employer to retaliate against this — speaking about a workplace right they are entitled to,” said Breining, the workers’ rights attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recommends workers document in writing everything that’s going on, including keeping track of the dates and places that their bosses haven’t followed regulations. And she suggests workers also address their employers in writing, in the form of a text message, an email or a traditional letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Specifically say what it is that you are requesting,” she said. “Are you requesting for the employer to provide training, to see what the heat illness prevention plan is or to request these cooldown breaks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documenting every time an employer does not follow heat regulations can be useful later on if a worker decides to file a complaint with Cal/OSHA, Breining says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Hornung suggests that workers who fear immediate retaliation first discuss the issue with their peers to build additional support. “So rather than you as an individual asking your boss, try to get your co-workers to ask as a group,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the fact that retaliation is illegal doesn’t prevent an employer from retaliating against workers who speak up against an unsafe workplace, says Cynthia Rice, director of litigation, advocacy and training at California Rural Legal Assistance, a group that provides free legal aid to agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never say the employer can’t retaliate against you because of course the employer can retaliate against you,” she told KQED. If you believe your employer fired you or cut your hours or wages because you spoke up for a safe workplace, \u003ca href=\"#report\">\u003cstrong>you can report this behavior to labor officials, who can start an investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11887210 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Clear plastic tubs of brightly colored fruit beneath an awning, with a city block in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50606_031_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor sells cut fruit underneath an umbrella in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"still\">\u003c/a>My boss didn’t listen to me. What do I do now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an employer is still unwilling to provide required heat protections, the next step may be to file a complaint with Cal/OSHA, a process that can be completed anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has several Bay Area field offices workers can contact directly to file a report, based on where their work sites are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco workers can call (415) 557-0100.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County workers can call the Foster City office at (650) 573-3812. This office also accommodates workers in some Santa Clara locations, including Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most workers in Santa Clara County can call the Fremont office at (510) 794-2521.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alameda County workers can call the Oakland office at (510) 622-2916.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>North Bay workers — in Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin and Contra Costa counties — can call the American Canyon office at (707) 649-3700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s also a statewide heat help line, which offers assistance in both English and Spanish (and can connect workers to assistance in other languages): (833) 579-0927.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When filing a complaint, you’ll be asked questions about your employer or company, including the name, location and number of workers on site, how many hours you work in a day and what the safety issue is. This is when having a written record of past incidents or requests is especially useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While providing your name is optional, Hornung from Cal/OSHA says that if you provide your contact information, you can be notified when the report was received and if Cal/OSHA will look into the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Cal/OSHA takes up your case, the agency will assign an inspector to your work site who will speak to both employers and employees. Hornung says the inspection can take up to six months, although it often takes less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11887034 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of a worker's hands shelling long beans.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50579_002_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor takes shelter from the sun while shelling beans in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2021. David Hornung from Cal/OSHA says that state heat protections apply to every person who works outdoors — not just agricultural workers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If there were any violations of the California code of regulations,” he said, “then the employer would be cited for those violations and those citations would have a monetary penalty.” The employer would also have to resolve whatever issue is putting workers at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"report\">\u003c/a>If your employer decides to retaliate against you during this time and either threatens you, cuts your hours or fires you, that’s grounds for a retaliation complaint with the state Labor Commissioner’s Office. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/rci_osha_complaint.htm\">file a retaliation complaint online\u003c/a>; by calling (714) 558-4913; or through \u003ca href=\"mailto:oshaRetaliation@dir.ca.gov\">email\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [your employer] retaliates against you, you have a remedy,” said Breining. “They can reinstate you, there’s penalties for retaliation, there’s back wages you can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an agricultural worker, another option is filing an unfair labor practice charge against your employer with the state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB). The ALRB investigates potential unfair labor practices including retaliation by an employer against a worker who reports unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two workers must come together to file a charge with the ALRB. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2018/05/alrb_form38_en.pdf\">file a charge using this form\u003c/a> and then send it, either though the mail or fax, to the closest ALRB office. In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/contact-us/\">the regional ALRB office is in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>606 Healdsburg Avenue\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa, CA 95401\u003cbr>\nPhone: (707) 527-3256\u003cbr>\nFax: (707) 576-2360\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"options\">\u003c/a>What are my other options?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">workers at an Oakland fast food restaurant filed a workplace COVID-19 safety complaint\u003c/a> with Cal/OSHA against their employer, alleging unsafe working conditions Agency officials responded nine months later saying no violations had been found — even as the employees who filed the original report claim that inspectors never reached out to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11875988","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49630_GettyImages-1231067411-qut-1020x600.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/cal-osha-response-covid-complaints/\">Understaffing has plagued Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> for years, and that has only been exacerbated during the pandemic, limiting the agency’s ability to investigate claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\">the agency has already issued hundreds of citations this year\u003c/a> to employers who have not adhered to workplace regulations — so filing a claim can in some cases produce an outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are additional steps you can take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining, the workers’ rights attorney, points out that there are multiple legal aid offices around the Bay Area that can support employees throughout the complaint process and offer additional legal assistance, most of the time at no cost — including her office, Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re more than happy to help [workers] make the complaint or help make them make a demand letter if they don’t really want to go through this more formal process,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breining adds that in many cases, workers reach out to her office after their employers have already retaliated against them or they have already suffered heat-related illness. While Centro Legal can still provide assistance, she encourages workers to seek aid before things go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prefer to help when it’s actually happening so that you don’t have to do some of the difficult legal processes after the fact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some organizations that offer free legal aid to workers in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: (415) 864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: (415) 896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> (Oakland): (510) 437-1554\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lrcl.org/\">La Raza Centro Legal\u003c/a> (San Francisco): (415) 575-3500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a>: (415) 621-4155\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://streetlevelhealthproject.org/\">Street Level Health Project\u003c/a>: (510) 533-9906\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://crla.org\">California Rural Legal Assistance\u003c/a>: (800) 337-0690\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Sept. 8, 2021. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29593","news_26334","news_5043","news_26115","news_27698","news_29044","news_27626","news_2929","news_18578","news_20202","news_29865","news_24100"],"featImg":"news_11886642","label":"news"},"news_11921946":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11921946","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11921946","score":null,"sort":[1659989674000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-regulators-fine-amys-kitchen-25000-for-safety-violations","title":"California Regulators Fine Amy's Kitchen $25,000 for Safety Violations","publishDate":1659989674,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California regulators slapped fines of $25,000 on the Petaluma-based organic meal producer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amys.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> due to more than a dozen health and safety violations inspectors found at its large production plant in Santa Rosa. The investigation was sparked by a worker complaint in January.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three of the 13 citations were “serious” due to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/334.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">risk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of severe injury or death to workers, according to a report issued by Cal/OSHA inspectors after they visited the facilities where roughly 680 people work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The violations include substandard emergency eyewash stations for employees who may be exposed to corrosive chemicals in the boiler room, and unsecured guards in dough-flattening conveyors. \u003c/span> [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Garrett Brown, retired Cal/OSHA field inspector\"]'The fact that there were no reported worker injuries from these safety hazards at the time of the inspection indicates the employer was lucky, not safe.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such exposed machinery could hurt workers by pulling their hands or clothing into it, according to safety experts. Federal regulators estimate that more than \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">800 workers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> die every year and 18,000 more are severely injured, including from amputations, by using unguarded machinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen, the vegetarian meal company that has cultivated a socially responsible image, plans to contest all of the citations issued by the agency on July 26.\u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11915111\" label=\"Related Post\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m very proud of the safety of our plant, and of course I am disappointed that we got what I would consider technical violations of the code,” said Steve Myers, senior manager of risk and safety for Amy’s Kitchen, adding that none of the citations were the result of worker injuries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myers disputed the finding that dough-flattening equipment was not sufficiently guarded. He said that only maintenance workers access that part of the machine, which is a few feet off the ground, and that they ensure it’s off while they work on it. Amy’s has since installed additional eyewash stations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We took their findings to heart,” said Myers, who oversees safety programs at Amy’s three production facilities in Oregon, Idaho and California. “We are always trying to continually improve safety, even though we have a very good safety record.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Garrett Brown, a retired Cal/OSHA field inspector who reviewed the agency’s findings at KQED’s request, said the citations showed that Amy’s Kitchen’s facilities were “definitely not a safe workplace” when inspectors arrived, including on Jan. 26 and 31.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The fact that there were no reported worker injuries from these safety hazards at the time of the inspection indicates the employer was lucky, not safe,” said Brown, a compliance safety and health officer for 18 years. “These are real safety hazards which can have real adverse consequences on people’s health and safety.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen has been fined in the recent past for violations that resulted in workers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Amy%27s+Kitchen&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=04&startyear=2014&endmonth=08&endday=04&endyear=2022\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">getting hurt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Santa Rosa plant, including an incident during which an employee’s finger was amputated on a food packaging line. Initial penalties by Cal/OSHA totaled more than $120,000 between 2014 and 2019.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The agency’s most recent inspection, for which the company says it turned over hundreds of pages of records, comes after a handful of workers filed a complaint in January, alleging they and others \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915111/how-socially-responsible-is-amys-kitchen-depends-on-who-you-ask\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">suffered serious\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> repetitive motion injuries over years of assembling burritos and other meals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The employees charged that Amy’s production line speeds often moved too fast, and that management failed to prioritize their safety over productivity, with supervisors sending workers who complained of pain back to the line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One employee who participated in the complaint, Cecilia Ojeda, previously told KQED that working at Amy’s hurt her wrist so badly it required surgery. The injuries prevented her from picking up her children when they were toddlers or cleaning her house the way she wanted. She said she continues to take pain medication almost daily to make it through her workday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing white coats, hairnets and face masks stand over machines over an assembly line.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees at Amy's Kitchen fold bean-and-cheese burritos on May 16, 2022, in Santa Rosa. Some workers have reported they were pushed to injury in this assembly line. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cal/OSHA inspectors, who found violations at Amy’s facilities over three separate visits, did not mention any violations of current ergonomic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5110.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">regulations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or cite problems with the pace of production lines at the facility \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Santa Rosa\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California has no safety regulations on the speed of production lines or the pace of work, which hampered the agency’s ability to cite any violations on that issue, Brown said. And while the state has an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5110.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ergonomics regulation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dating back to 1997, the standard is so difficult to prove and convoluted it is practically unenforceable, he added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So the fact that that was not cited doesn't mean that they don't have a hazard related to those aspects of their workplace production operations,” Brown said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul Schiefer, vice president of impact and communications at Amy’s Kitchen, declared that the facilities “stood the test of a wall-to-wall inspection” and validated the company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some employees who spoke publicly about their injuries were dismayed by the results.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This made us look like liars,” wrote a worker in a text in Spanish, referring to the Cal/OSHA findings, which she was still trying to fully understand. KQED is not publishing her name because she fears backlash from management and co-workers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspectors “saw that pretty much everything was OK, but we know the truth,” said the employee, who has worked at the plant for more than two decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspectors did note that Amy’s has a history of repetitive motion injuries among workers, and that the company must take further preventive action in areas such as the burrito line, which workers had complained about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The employer’s past years’ record of RMIs [repetitive motion injuries] showed that there are work areas … that would require ergonomic re-evaluation, exposure control and retraining of employees to minimize RMIS,” the report noted in a memorandum. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown said these kinds of memorandums are typically issued when hazards cannot be addressed by regulation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some workers at the Santa Rosa plant said tensions have escalated after Amy’s announced it will permanently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/01/amy-kitchen-plan-job-cuts-layoff-plant-closure-economy-san-jose-edd/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">close\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> another facility in San Jose by mid-September, reportedly eliminating 331 jobs amid a union organizing drive there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing protective headwear equipment, gloves and an apron touches a container of food on an assembly line.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers make tofu at the Amy's Kitchen plant in Santa Rosa on May 16, 2022. A worker sustained third-degree burns to his foot when he spilled hot soy milk during the tofu-making process in 2019, according to a Cal/OSHA inspection report. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company said it made the “difficult decision” to cease operations in San Jose because the plant, which primarily made frozen pizzas, was losing $1 million a month and faced other economic hurdles such as supply chain disruptions and an abrupt increase in ingredients’ prices. But union organizers dispute that explanation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Amy’s closure of the facility is part of the company’s overall campaign orchestrated against its workers,” said Tho Do, organizing director with UNITE HERE Northern California, in a press release announcing workers protesting the closure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some employees at the Santa Rosa plant support unionization, while others oppose it. Shortly after employees reached out to organizers with Teamsters Local 665 to talk about unionizing late last year, the company hired Quest Consulting, a bilingual firm with a “union busting” reputation among labor organizers. Some of the workers said the consultants’ goal was to discourage workers from unionizing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California regulators slapped fines of $25,000 on the Petaluma-based organic meal producer Amy's Kitchen due to more than a dozen health and safety violations inspectors found at its large production plant in Santa Rosa.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1659994664,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1344},"headData":{"title":"California Regulators Fine Amy's Kitchen $25,000 for Safety Violations | KQED","description":"California regulators slapped fines of $25,000 on the Petaluma-based organic meal producer Amy's Kitchen due to more than a dozen health and safety violations inspectors found at its large production plant in Santa Rosa.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Regulators Fine Amy's Kitchen $25,000 for Safety Violations","datePublished":"2022-08-08T20:14:34.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-08T21:37:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11921946 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11921946","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/08/california-regulators-fine-amys-kitchen-25000-for-safety-violations/","disqusTitle":"California Regulators Fine Amy's Kitchen $25,000 for Safety Violations","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11921946/california-regulators-fine-amys-kitchen-25000-for-safety-violations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California regulators slapped fines of $25,000 on the Petaluma-based organic meal producer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amys.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> due to more than a dozen health and safety violations inspectors found at its large production plant in Santa Rosa. The investigation was sparked by a worker complaint in January.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three of the 13 citations were “serious” due to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/334.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">risk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of severe injury or death to workers, according to a report issued by Cal/OSHA inspectors after they visited the facilities where roughly 680 people work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The violations include substandard emergency eyewash stations for employees who may be exposed to corrosive chemicals in the boiler room, and unsecured guards in dough-flattening conveyors. \u003c/span> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The fact that there were no reported worker injuries from these safety hazards at the time of the inspection indicates the employer was lucky, not safe.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Garrett Brown, retired Cal/OSHA field inspector","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such exposed machinery could hurt workers by pulling their hands or clothing into it, according to safety experts. Federal regulators estimate that more than \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/etools/machine-guarding\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">800 workers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> die every year and 18,000 more are severely injured, including from amputations, by using unguarded machinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen, the vegetarian meal company that has cultivated a socially responsible image, plans to contest all of the citations issued by the agency on July 26.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11915111","label":"Related Post "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m very proud of the safety of our plant, and of course I am disappointed that we got what I would consider technical violations of the code,” said Steve Myers, senior manager of risk and safety for Amy’s Kitchen, adding that none of the citations were the result of worker injuries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myers disputed the finding that dough-flattening equipment was not sufficiently guarded. He said that only maintenance workers access that part of the machine, which is a few feet off the ground, and that they ensure it’s off while they work on it. Amy’s has since installed additional eyewash stations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We took their findings to heart,” said Myers, who oversees safety programs at Amy’s three production facilities in Oregon, Idaho and California. “We are always trying to continually improve safety, even though we have a very good safety record.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Garrett Brown, a retired Cal/OSHA field inspector who reviewed the agency’s findings at KQED’s request, said the citations showed that Amy’s Kitchen’s facilities were “definitely not a safe workplace” when inspectors arrived, including on Jan. 26 and 31.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The fact that there were no reported worker injuries from these safety hazards at the time of the inspection indicates the employer was lucky, not safe,” said Brown, a compliance safety and health officer for 18 years. “These are real safety hazards which can have real adverse consequences on people’s health and safety.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy’s Kitchen has been fined in the recent past for violations that resulted in workers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Amy%27s+Kitchen&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=04&startyear=2014&endmonth=08&endday=04&endyear=2022\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">getting hurt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Santa Rosa plant, including an incident during which an employee’s finger was amputated on a food packaging line. Initial penalties by Cal/OSHA totaled more than $120,000 between 2014 and 2019.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The agency’s most recent inspection, for which the company says it turned over hundreds of pages of records, comes after a handful of workers filed a complaint in January, alleging they and others \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915111/how-socially-responsible-is-amys-kitchen-depends-on-who-you-ask\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">suffered serious\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> repetitive motion injuries over years of assembling burritos and other meals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The employees charged that Amy’s production line speeds often moved too fast, and that management failed to prioritize their safety over productivity, with supervisors sending workers who complained of pain back to the line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One employee who participated in the complaint, Cecilia Ojeda, previously told KQED that working at Amy’s hurt her wrist so badly it required surgery. The injuries prevented her from picking up her children when they were toddlers or cleaning her house the way she wanted. She said she continues to take pain medication almost daily to make it through her workday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing white coats, hairnets and face masks stand over machines over an assembly line.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56213_IMG_2493-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees at Amy's Kitchen fold bean-and-cheese burritos on May 16, 2022, in Santa Rosa. Some workers have reported they were pushed to injury in this assembly line. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cal/OSHA inspectors, who found violations at Amy’s facilities over three separate visits, did not mention any violations of current ergonomic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5110.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">regulations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or cite problems with the pace of production lines at the facility \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Santa Rosa\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California has no safety regulations on the speed of production lines or the pace of work, which hampered the agency’s ability to cite any violations on that issue, Brown said. And while the state has an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5110.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ergonomics regulation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dating back to 1997, the standard is so difficult to prove and convoluted it is practically unenforceable, he added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So the fact that that was not cited doesn't mean that they don't have a hazard related to those aspects of their workplace production operations,” Brown said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul Schiefer, vice president of impact and communications at Amy’s Kitchen, declared that the facilities “stood the test of a wall-to-wall inspection” and validated the company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some employees who spoke publicly about their injuries were dismayed by the results.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This made us look like liars,” wrote a worker in a text in Spanish, referring to the Cal/OSHA findings, which she was still trying to fully understand. KQED is not publishing her name because she fears backlash from management and co-workers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspectors “saw that pretty much everything was OK, but we know the truth,” said the employee, who has worked at the plant for more than two decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspectors did note that Amy’s has a history of repetitive motion injuries among workers, and that the company must take further preventive action in areas such as the burrito line, which workers had complained about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The employer’s past years’ record of RMIs [repetitive motion injuries] showed that there are work areas … that would require ergonomic re-evaluation, exposure control and retraining of employees to minimize RMIS,” the report noted in a memorandum. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown said these kinds of memorandums are typically issued when hazards cannot be addressed by regulation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some workers at the Santa Rosa plant said tensions have escalated after Amy’s announced it will permanently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/01/amy-kitchen-plan-job-cuts-layoff-plant-closure-economy-san-jose-edd/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">close\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> another facility in San Jose by mid-September, reportedly eliminating 331 jobs amid a union organizing drive there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing protective headwear equipment, gloves and an apron touches a container of food on an assembly line.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS56217_IMG_5209-making-tofu-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers make tofu at the Amy's Kitchen plant in Santa Rosa on May 16, 2022. A worker sustained third-degree burns to his foot when he spilled hot soy milk during the tofu-making process in 2019, according to a Cal/OSHA inspection report. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company said it made the “difficult decision” to cease operations in San Jose because the plant, which primarily made frozen pizzas, was losing $1 million a month and faced other economic hurdles such as supply chain disruptions and an abrupt increase in ingredients’ prices. But union organizers dispute that explanation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Amy’s closure of the facility is part of the company’s overall campaign orchestrated against its workers,” said Tho Do, organizing director with UNITE HERE Northern California, in a press release announcing workers protesting the closure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some employees at the Santa Rosa plant support unionization, while others oppose it. Shortly after employees reached out to organizers with Teamsters Local 665 to talk about unionizing late last year, the company hired Quest Consulting, a bilingual firm with a “union busting” reputation among labor organizers. 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But food companies utilized the judicial and appeals process to try to reduce their penalties, she said.[aside postID=\"news_11913643,news_11910083\" label=\"Related Post\"]“Oftentimes the fines will be reduced or eliminated,” she said. “We know that the food production employers — and the companies they’re producing for — have very powerful legal teams to reduce the fines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies’ violations often included failure to provide and implement a health and safety system, which is required by a 1991 state law, the study said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes food production workers as those working in meat packing, dairy operations and agriculture — primarily Black, Latino, and Indigenous people, and often undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping workers safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among 36 agricultural workplaces that utilized contractors, the report names Brutocao Vineyards. 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