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2018 Race and Social Justice Initiative Report

Office of Labor Standards

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Seattle Office of Labor Standards

OLS staff and supporters during an outreach event on May 1, 2019.

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• Becoming an independent Change Team

• Staff changes

• How to meet individual and office-wide needs

• Staff capacity

2018 RSJI Challenges

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• OLS Change Team

• Charter & workplan

• Committee structure

• All staff retreat discussion → all staff attending People's Institute training in 2019

• All staff participation in Racial Equity Toolkits (RETs)

2018 RSJI Accomplishments

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2018 Racial Equity Toolkits

Enforcement Priorities

OLS WebsiteStrategic

Enforcement

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Community Outreach and Engagement

Fund

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GOAL:

Expand access to educational materials on

labor standards

OLS Website

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• Community-based organizations & workers

• Business owners

• Professional service providers

Stakeholder Engagement

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Issues & Recommendations

Text heavy → Increase visual elements

Too much legal jargon → Simplify language

LEP challenges → Increase language access

Hard to navigate → Reorganize resources

Need for additional tools → Communicate recent developments

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The Work Continues…

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OLS considered Strategic Enforcement as an office in 2018, with input from national experts, and community and business partners.

Strategic Enforcement

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To create a Strategic Enforcement structure in OLS that is:

• Racially equitable,

• Inclusive, and

• Garners feedback from all OLS personnel.

Goal for OLS Strategic Enforcement Work

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Individual interviews with every person at OLS.

Sample questions:

• How can strategic enforcement efforts help advance racial equity within our office?

• How should we ensure that we consider racial equity when deciding the focus of strategic enforcement efforts?

Stakeholder Engagement

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• Collaborate more, across teams

• Create leadership opportunities

• Systems of accountability to the community

• Learn from past experience

Feedback & Ideas

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• Identifying & selecting

• Accountability to community

• Giving staff time & space to participate

• Who works on what

• Managing & decision making

• Evaluation

Recommendation: Policy & Procedure Guide

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The Work Continues…

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Thank you!