Violations of Health Workers' Labor Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The issues of protecting the rights of workers have traditionally been of significant importance in modern labor relations;however, during the spread of COVID-19, they acquired a particular specificity. The lack of a safe work environment exposes workers to the virus, and lack of access to the necessary tools and equipment makes it difficult for employees to perform their assigned tasks. For many industries that do not have the possibility of remote work, in particular construction and the manufacturing sector, the need to adapt to the new reality while respecting labor rights has raised a lot of questions. However, it is the health workers who are at the forefront of the pandemic that are at increased risk. Despite the fundamental importance of respecting the rights of medical personnel during a pandemic, there exists much evidence that states do not guarantee the observance of such rights, and sometimes even contribute to their deliberate violation. Thus, this study is devoted to the issue of violations of health workers' labor rights during a pandemic. At the same time, the goal was set to systematize medical workers' rights that are violated during a pandemic. The theoretical and practical value of such a study is manifested in the universalization of opportunities for preventing or eliminating negative consequences from such a violation of rights. The study traced the spread of COVID-19, as well as the measures taken by various states to counter it, which, as a result, made it possible to actualize the importance of the role of medical workers during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. Using the method of system analysis as well as the method of political and legal analysis, a study of international legal acts in the field of regulation of the protection of labor rights was carried out from the point of view of their applicability to the protection of labor rights of medical workers. The study considers the examples of developed and developing countries. Based on the analysis of existing examples of violations of the rights of health workers in the countries under consideration, the study determines the violated rights from the point of view of international law. Research carried out a generalization of cases of illegal attitudes of the states (considered in the study) toward health workers, which made it possible to name the most frequently violated labor rights of health workers during a pandemic. Based on the analysis carried out, the study classifies all identified violated labor rights of medical personnel during a pandemic with appropriate justification for such a classification. (C) 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers.

E-Learning y empoderamiento de las trabajadoras del hogar centroamericanas en Barcelona en tiempos de COVID-19: el caso del CITE

This article focuses on the case of Central American female domestic and care workers in Barcelona, many of whom live and work as undocumented migrants and are unaware of their rights and the mechanisms to exercise them. The Trade Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions, from its CITE association, has vast experience in training foreigners through the delivery of face-to-face workshops on labor rights that have enabled their empowerment. With the COVID-19 emergency, the face-to-face workshop format switched to virtual for the first time, through the use of Google Meet (formerly Hangouts Meet) application, allowing mobile learning (m-learning). The results presented show how this new training modality, despite the challenges it poses to organizers in terms of technological and human resources, not only achieves the empowerment of the benefitted migrant women, but also improves the accessibility of this vulnerable group to training. © 2022 Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA).

Louisiana Guestworker Health and Safety a Necessary Component of Health Equity: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Guestworkers are a critical labor component of many industries considered essential to U.S. infrastructure. Despite their essential role in the U.S. labor force, guestworkers are vulnerable to exploitative labor practices. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded guestworkers' vulnerability to include a lack of public health protective measures in addition to longstanding labor abuses. The pandemic has created greater public health awareness about structural determinants of health inequities, such as unsafe and exploitative working conditions. As public health increases its focus on social and structural determinants of health, it can contribute to improved labor conditions for guestworkers. This article highlights guestworkers' experiences in Louisiana's crawfish industry to demonstrate the marginalized role of guestworker labor in a major Louisiana industry. This article also examines local public health approaches that can bring attention and resources to labor issues.

Teleworking and pandemic. Analysis of working conditions in times of covid-19

This article aspires to be a core part of the diary of debates and reflections on the New Normal in 2021. It is required to have scientific evidence, from a critical analysis on the modality of telework, with the aim of identifying working conditions such as the suspension of contracts and dismissals, the existence of exploitation, precarious working conditions, gender discrimination and violation of labor rights. The provisions of telework and official data will be analyzed, so that it can be determined whether under the argument of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the working conditions of the new normal are harmful or not to workers;in a State that is responsible for defending the weak part of the employment relationship, but at the same time must adopt measures to avoid the closure of companies and safeguard jobs. © 2021 Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang. All rights reserved.

[Reflections on the Nursing Work Environment in Light of the Experience With COVID-19].

Labor issues related to the nursing profession have been gaining prominence in Taiwan as well as overseas. In 2016, the United Nations highlighted the importance of societies investing sufficient funds in their professional nurses to support and promote public health, gender equality, and economic growth. Good-quality care requires that nurses have good physical and mental health, while creating and maintaining a friendly nursing work environment rely on cooperation among the government, labor unions, and hospitals. Over the past decade, the Taiwan government has increasingly promoted relevant regulations and established a friendly platform to allow nursing staffs to identify problems and report labor rights violations. In addition, nurses have formed unions to defend and advocate for their professional rights. After the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, the Department of Nursing and Health Care of the Ministry of Health and Welfare actively proposed policies related to creating and maintaining good nursing work environments. The Taiwan Nursing and Medical Industries Union took a supervisory role in this process, providing feedback on policies from the perspective of Taiwan's professional nurses and arguing for the reasonable and fair subsidization of epidemic prevention facilities, implementation of mask and protective equipment, nursing labor rights, and social respect for the nursing profession. Much work still needs to be done to improve the domestic working environment for nursing staffs, including improving and expanding education, normalizing and effectively utilizing nursing staff feedback and whistleblowing information, promoting information transparency, and implementing better policies. We hope that a friendlier nursing work environment will attract many more outstanding young persons to pursue a career in nursing.