The California Labor & Workforce Development Agency (LWDA)
LWDA is an executive branch agency that works to ensure safe and fair workplaces.
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Background
As part of the emergency response to COVID-19, LWDA was tasked with slowing the spread of COVID-19 in high-risk industries across California. LWDA launched a campaign to educate both workers and employers on California health and safety protocols and workers’ rights related to paid sick leave. Working closely with Community Based Organizations (CBO’s), a series of materials were developed to help spread awareness and provide educational resources to workers in need.
Labor Rights Pocket Guides
When working closely with CBO’s, it was understood that workers preferred materials that were small, less noticeable, but still informative. To address these needs a number of different types of pocket guides were developed. When folded down, these guides were small enough to hide away. However, when opened up there is enough information present to guide and aid workers. These guides were also translated into multiple languages including: Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Punjabi, and Vietnamese.
Retaliation Pocket Guide
A critical component of labor rights that needed to be further understood was retaliation and what that could look like. Once more, working closely with CBO’s a second pocket guide was developed, however, this time in wallet size. Understanding that retaliation could be difficult to detect, this wallet card features a comic of a scenario that depicts an act of retaliation. Using illustrations and accessible language, the goal of this guide was to not only educate workers on their rights but empower them with knowledge so they can report any act of wrongdoing by their employer.
Retaliation Booklet
A follow-up resource need to the retaliation pocket guide was the retaliation booklet. While the pocket guide’s goal was to inform workers what retaliation could look like and when to take action, the booklet was a step-by-step resource to guide workers on how to file a complaint if and when they need to. The booklet was designed to be accessible by making use of easy to understand language and the same character illustrations from the pocket guide. Similar to prior materials, this booklet was translated into multiple languages.
