Urge your state legislators to co-sponsor workers' rights bills in Rhode Island
Workers deserve more rights
We live in a culture where corporations simply have too much power. Currently, they can:
- Push us out of our jobs for any reason or no reason
- Fail to conduct investigations for reports of sexual harassment
- Make it difficult for us to leave toxic workplaces when our healthcare is tied to our jobs
- Silence us when we've been abused
- Pay some workers below minimum wage or an otherwise non-livable wage
- Conduct abusive scheduling practices
- Avoid accountability for discrimination through wages and promotions
- Steal wages
- Verbally abuse and sabotage workers with zero accountability
We can change this toxic culture for workers through by passing these bills into law:
Minimum wage, S1AA/H5130
Workers shouldn't have to work multiple jobs to pay for basic living expenses. This bill would raise the minimum wage over several years to $15 per hour.
Nondisclosure agreements, S189/H5853
When employers use settlements with their presumed guilt and/or to save money, they often add gag clauses to protect their reputations. Yet those gag clauses silence targets and embolden serial abusers. The Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) bill would ban NDAs, protections that 12 other states already have.
Pay disclosure, H5584
When workers disclose their pay history, employers can continue past discriminatory practices. This bill would ban employers from asking about pay history so workers in certain demographics can make salaries equitable to workers in more privileged demographics.
Pay equity, S270/H5261
This bill would require employers to assess and correct pay disparities based on race, sex, and other characteristics.
Wage theft, S195
This bill would hold lead contractors accountable for the wage theft violations of their subcontractors as long as there is a significant connection to their business activities or operations. It would also protect workers from wage theft violations such as failure to make wage payments, failure to abide by minimum wage, prevailing wage and overtime laws, and independent contractor misclassification and strengthen workers’ protection against retaliation. Ultimately, it would promote fair competition by ensuring that all businesses, including lead contractors, play by the rules and give their workers an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work.
