Chair Encarnación questions immigrant worker protections across jurisdictions
Encarnación asks about protections for workers who live in NYC but work outside the city. Officials describe meeting with transnational worker advocates and the chief climate officer about heat and climate impacts on workers, showing innovative cross-jurisdiction coordination.
And I know with the immigrant worker protections, because I know you just mentioned Deputy Mayor, sorry, Sue.
There were a lot of discussions, especially in some of our roundtables, around having concerns about workers who may live in the city but work outside of the city and having those protections applied to them.
So does the administration plan to connect with local jurisdictions to talk about how do we coordinate, further protect, and how do we do that knowing that they're not necessarily a sanctuary city like ours?
Absolutely.
I mean, these are real concerns that affect people's willingness to move safely for employment and opportunity.
We are open to coordinating with workers across the country.
Do you want to share about the recent roundtable?
Yeah, we are.
Taking this international, we actually met with the transnational worker advocates with Deputy Mayor Su, where advocates came from actually Latin America to talk about some of the issues that they have been having.
Another touch point we've had most recently has been with workers and in connection with the chief climate officer to talk about the impacts of heat and climate on workers as well.
So there have been new touch points that we've made with the worker-specific issues that you've lined.
I love that.
Thank you so much for that.
I think that that's great.
And, you know, it's that kind of innovation that we hope for when we're looking at how do we really support people in a real-world way.