10/23/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/23/2024 07:37
The Department of Labor is back to working in-person, providing services that constituents can see, touch and feel at a neighborhood level. The City's labor laws aim to increase economic opportunity and equity in all Philadelphia workplaces. The Office of Worker Protections has visited five business corridors throughout the city and connected with over 80 businesses in the past 6 months. We've set up resource tables at 14 community events and received over 400 calls on the worker protection hotline - informing hundreds of constituents on their rights under city labor laws.
Labor day "kicks off" the annual "Labor Month" programming for the Office of Worker Protections (OWP). In honor of Labor Month, the OWP hosted and partnered on a series of events with a goal to make worker's rights approachable and to increase awareness about laws that protect you when you are at work. This year's Labor Month programming included the following:
There are over 700,000 Philadelphia workers and every worker is protected by at least one of the City's labor laws, regardless of the worker's immigration status and each of the City's labor laws protect workers from retaliation.This means it is illegal for employers to interfere with or deny workers rights that are provided by Philadelphia labor laws.The Department of Labor continues to work to bring dignity and respect to every workplace, for every worker in the city, through enforcing and advancing labor laws with a commitment to promoting economic security and racial justice. The Office of Worker Protections distributed 1,000 educational flyers, held 5 labor law trainings and conducted 35 drop ins to small businessesand the public during labor month regarding labor law and retaliation protections.