May 10th, 2020: Today is Mother’s Day, the day of the year when we celebrate our mothers
August 20th, 2019: Children from Latino migrant farmworker families are some of the most educationally marginalized students in the United States
May 22nd, 2018: Hurricane Maria, the worst natural disaster ever to hit Puerto Rico, wipes out the island’s power grid
April 3rd, 2018: The undersigned organizations write to oppose any changes by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to the requirements in the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (“WPS”) and Certification of Pesticide Applicators rule (CPA).
March 9th, 2018: With one sweeping announcement, the Trump administration recently began dismantling an almost 30-year-old program that has sheltered some of the nation’s most vulnerable immigrants from being forcibly returned to their homelands
September 21st, 2017: Legal protections for children working in hazardous conditions in Nicaragua are robust on paper, but systematic publicity, implementation and enforcement of the law is missing
April 7th, 2017: Articles 4(1), 5 and 7(1) of the Convention. Determination of types of hazardous work, monitoring mechanisms and penalties
November 2nd, 2016: Many countries already have some form of a financial transaction tax, including those with strong and fast-growing financial markets, such as the UK, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, and India
REMARKS BY JIM LEONARD AT THE CELEBRATION OF CLAIRE WHITE’S LIFE Jim Leonard, retired attorney with the US Department of Labor and a long-time colleague of Claire White made the following remarks at a ceremony celebrating her life on September 10, 2016: The most important thing about Claire White, as I see it, and as I think all of you see it, if that you just couldn’t help loving her. Her human warmth, her many kindnesses, and her amazing empathetic eyes were, to me at any rate, what most endeared her to all of us. This gathering is a very emotional time. But the emotion we are focusing on here is not our profound sorrow at Claire’s passing, but instead the pleasure we feel in recalling and celebrating her life. Quite a few others will be talking today about Claire, so I want to keep my remarks short. So here are two scenes from Claire’s life that some or even all of you may not recall or even know about. The first scene dates from the late 1970s, when Claire came to the Department of Labor for a job interview in the Fair Labor Standards Division of the Solicitor’s Office. I was the first person to interview her. She also had interviews some other lawyers, and I did not have […]
July 29th, 2016: The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2016 is a missed opportunity
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