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Workers’ rights
Recommendation 37:
Work with employees, through bargaining agents or Muslim and/or racialized employee representatives, ensure there are policies and procedures to address workplace harassment, violence or bullying. Reports of such incidences should be reported promptly and appropriate remedies taken.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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Recommendation 20:
Work to increase equity representation in CLC committees and on decision making bodies such as Canadian Council.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 24:
To address safety concerns expressed by interviewees, there are several larger structural solutions such as increasing the number of safe and affordable housing units, access to health-focused treatment, and equitable employment opportunities. One short-term measure could be to install lighting on streets and in alleyways to help people feel safe during evenings and at night.
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Recommendation 3:
The trafficking provisions found in the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act should be maintained as laws of general application and applied in all situations of labour exploitation. Sex work (the consensual exchange of sexual services for money) is not trafficking, and trafficking laws should not be used as a reason to investigate sex workers and sex work businesses unless there is compelling evidence of debt bondage, violence, deprivation of liberty, or similar exploitation.
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Recommendation 1:
The provincial government should increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour and make sure all workers in BC are covered by the minimum wage by the end of 2019, and index it annually to the cost of living.
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The PCEPA is an unconstitutional set of laws that imposes more danger and more criminalization on sex workers and leaves them with fewer safe options. We recommend repealing all criminal laws that prohibit the purchase or sale of sexual services by adults and that limit adults selling sex from working with others in non-coercive situations. This includes the PCEPA and provisions such as Section 213(1)(a) and (b), which were not constitutionally challenged in Bedford.
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Recommendation 9:
The greatest commonality between sex workers in Canada is the stigma they face. Most sex workers live in fear that their work will be revealed to family and neighbours. This stigma perpetuates conditions that have allowed predators to murder, rape, and abuse sex workers with impunity, because police failed to investigate and prosecute these crimes. Education is also needed to dismantle negative stereotypes about sex workers, but law reform is essential. Changing the law would be a first step towards undoing the stigma and accepting sex work as an occupation and people who do sex work as full members of our communities.
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Recommendation 2:
The best way to eliminate exploitation is not to create a highly stigmatizing set of laws that set sex workers apart from the rest of society, but rather to use existing Criminal Code provisions to punish perpetrators of violence and exploitation and ensure that sex workers enjoy full and equal access to police and labour protections that are theoretically available to everyone in Canada. (See Appendix 2, Existing)
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Recommendation 1:
That the BC government, working in collaboration with commercial distribution networks, invest $10M to create regional stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE) for future pandemic preparation for B.C.’s health care sector, with an emphasis on seniors’ living and care providers, including non-government home health care operators.
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That the BC government invest $20 million over three years to fund a comprehensive, industry-led health human resource (HHR) strategy for the seniors’ care and living sector to address chronicworker shortages and improve quality of care for residents and clients.
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