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7 Sep 2014

Author:
Luis F. Carrasco, Arizona Daily Star (USA)

UA report details workplace abuses for immigrant women [USA]

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Low-wage immigrant women workers in Tucson are often overworked, abused, underpaid and labor under unsafe conditions, according to a report by the University of Arizona’s Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program. The report is based on interviews and surveys filled out by 90 women...working in jobs that are part of the “underground economy,” or workplaces that are exempt from most legal protections...Nina Rabin, associate clinical professor of law at UA...[said] "The report is an effort to try and bring that to light, to let people know what it’s like for these women,”...The report includes a series of recommendations at the state and local levels to improve conditions...Mayor...Rothschild said that, while he is open to starting a discussion on raising the minimum wage — and potentially creating a registry for domestic workers, along with a place where they could receive aid — it is with worker education that any change should begin...