{"id":3732,"date":"2020-06-16T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:24:38","slug":"employee-rights-to-a-safe-workplace-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2020\/06\/16\/employee-rights-to-a-safe-workplace-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Rights to a Safe Workplace During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the University continues moving toward returning to normal operations, student workers have raised a variety of related concerns regarding health and safety. It is important to remember that student workers have the right to a safe workplace and the right to speak up or make complaints about health and safety without fear of retaliation. Columbia has a legal obligation to provide a workplace free of known health and safety hazards. Given the unprecedented dangers associated with COVID-19, we urge all workers to understand and remember these important workplace rights. See below for some general COVID-19 health and safety guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n EMPLOYEE RIGHTS TO A SAFE WORKPLACE DURING COVID-19<\/b><\/p>\n What you should expect from the University:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>How to protect yourself and the community:<\/b><\/p>\n Contact your Union if your supervisor does not let you enforce your rights and creates an unsafe work environment: columbiagradunion@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the University continues moving toward returning to normal operations, student workers have raised a variety of related concerns regarding health and safety. It is important to remember that student workers have the right to a safe workplace and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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