Labour Advocacy and Research Association (L.A.R.A.)
Organization profile published 1979
Year Published: 1979
Price: Free Resource Type: Organization
Cx Number: CX937
The Labour Advocacy and Research Association provides general information for farm and domestic workers.
Abstract:
The Labour Advocacy and Research Association provides general information for farm and domestic workers. It sponsors the Farmworkers Legal Information Service (same address) which provides legal information and assistance for farmworkers, and works with the Council on Household Employment (No. 11 - 1300 McLean Dr., Vancouver, B.C.) which is involved with contracts and advice for domestic workers.
Farm and domestic workers in British Columbia are excluded from the Minimum Wage Act, Hours of Work Act, Payment of Wages Act, Control of Employment of Children Act, Maternity Protection Act, Workers Compensation Act, and Annual and General Holidays Act. This exclusion has contributed to the extremely low standards of wages and working conditions in these jobs.
Almost all domestic, and 60 percent of farmworkers are women. There is also a high percentage of immigrants in these jobs.
The following brochures have been prepared: Information for Domestic Workers on Employment Visas, (Work Visas, Work Permits); Keeping Records; Contract of Employment; The Canadian Legal System: Some Basic Information; and Farm and Domestic Workers-Unrecognized and unorganized Labour. Some of these brochures are also available in Chinese, Punjabi, Portuguese, Italian, Greek and French.
L.A.R.A. has also produced a Legal Resource Book for Farm and Domestic Workers, and a Farmworkers' Record of Work Book.
Copies of publications are free of charge.
This organization no longer exists.
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