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July 1, 2021
EASTERN SHORE, Md.- Governor Larry Hogan’s state of emergency has lifted and some groups say it’s at a time when all workers don’t have protections.
Groups advocating for food and farm workers said after more than a year of pressure simple precautions still have not been put in place.
People we spoke with said the issue of these workers not getting protections has been happening for years, but the pandemic has really shed a light on the disparities.
We’re told by one advocate that earlier this year when legislatures passed the Maryland essential workers protection act it required employers to provide commonsense COVID-19 protections for essential workers.
Pesticide laws fail to protect the most vulnerable people in agriculture: children
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Two new studies highlight the hazardous conditions inherent in farm work, and show the weakness in standards meant to protect kids from developmental disorders and disease.
As a child growing up on his family’s subsistence farm in Puebla, Mexico, Abel Luna loved helping to plant corn and other crops. But in 2001, when he turned 13, his enthusiasm quickly evaporated. That’s when Luna began traveling to New York’s black dirt region to “sell his labor,” working alongside his father in commercial vegetable crop fields. Where once he took pride in “growing [our] own food at [our] own pace,” he now began working 14-hour or longer days from February through November. In addition to a grueling schedule and poor living conditions, Luna remembers “pretty much a lack of every kind of equipment that you need”: gloves, glasses, and masks to protect him from contact with agricult
How global tech giant Infosys is battling India’s COVID surge and standing up for employees Fortune 4 hrs ago
Infosys president Ravi Kumar was trying to get global attention on vaccines
last year.
“Businesses can play a pivotal role in encouraging vaccine literacy and engendering vaccination trust in the workplace,” he said in a prescient December email to me. “Building and sustaining vaccine confidence has never been more important.”
Five months later, Kumar is in the middle of an all-out war against COVID-19, but his tact and rhetoric remain the same. The brunt of Infosys’ 250,000 employees work in India, where rates of the virus are surging. Headlines report record-high numbers; 400,000 cases a day this week, and growing despair over a lack of vaccines, oxygen and hospital beds. It’s dire.
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