IMPROVING MIGRANT WORKERS’ ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR WAGE THEFT: EFFECTIVE APPROACHES IN THE AMERICAS
June 22 2022
Last year, the Migrant Justice Institute collaborated with the ILAW Network and Solidarity Center on a study of promising initiatives that are strengthening wage claim processes around the world, and compelling businesses to comply with wage judgments. This included a number of innovative examples from the Americas.
This important discussion with the lawyers, advocates and organisers involved addresses innovative strategies they have used to drive effective reforms.
Speakers
Neha Misra & Jeff Vogt, Solidarity Center | Moderators
Associate Prof Bassina Farbenblum, Migrant Justice Institute | Key research findings on promising initiatives in the Americas and globally
Ruth Silver-Taube, Santa Clara University School of Law | How a coalition achieved reforms to improve compliance with wage judgments in San José
Angélica Palacios Martinez, Solidarity Center, Colombia | Organising rideshare workers in Colombia to compel government agency responses to migrant wage claims
Rachel Micah-Jones, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM) | Seizing opportunities to strengthen transnational migrant worker wage claim processes during the pandemic
Amanda Aziz, Migrant Workers Centre Canada | Canada’s new law providing visa portability for exploited migrant workers: Achievements and strategies for further reforms
Associate Prof Laurie Berg, Migrant Justice Institute | Building a global community of practice to drive law and policy reforms to address wage theft