Community advocate Mei Mei Chan will be presenting on workers' rights in the City and County of San Francisco and the State of California. All workers, regardless of immigration status, have workers’ rights in California. This presentation will provide an overview of wage and hour rights (minimum wage, overtime, breaks) as well as anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation rights. In addition, it will review what to do if your rights get violated at work. As background, this presentation will provide a brief review of some of the history that led us to obtain these rights. For the long-term, it will detail what more needs to be done to maintain, preserve and improve these rights for future generations.
About the presenter:
Mei Mei Chan is a Community Advocate with the Asian Law Caucus' Workers’ Rights Program where she supports the legal counseling clinic and works on “Know Your Rights” trainings and materials. She was born in Kaiping, Guangdong and grew up in Bakersfield as the child of low-wage immigrant workers. Her experience living in a first-generation immigrant household is one of Mei Mei's reasons for her commitment to social justice. Another reason is her desire to survive in a world headed towards climate disaster. In her free time, she maintains her morning pages streak and studies peoples' movements against U.S. imperialism.
About Asian Law Caucus:
Since 1972, the Asian Law Caucus has been fighting with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities for civil rights and systemic change that builds a more just and caring world. The Asian Law Caucus’ mission is based on striving for and ensuring economic security, immigrant justice and inclusive democracy. Rooted in building community partnerships, the Asian Law Caucus seeks to defend and empower, to further policy advocacy at the government level and to provide litigation and direct services for its clients.
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