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EEOC Reveals Rise in Cases Involving Blue-Collar Women

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court clarified employer liability in sexual harassment cases, experts say the problem remains persistent even while the nature of complaints shifts.

An examination of the caseload at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reveals that companies are facing a changing and growing roster of complaints. The EEOC, under its first Latina chair, Ida Castro, cites an " alarming" rise in cases involving the most vulnerable women in the workplace: those filling blue-collar and factory jobs, especially immigrants.

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- La Cronica de Hoy
Jan. 22, 2006
Mexico
Deputy Angélica de la Peña

99% Of Domestic Workers In Mexico Are Adolescents And Girls - 40,000 Are Under Age 14.

Mexico City - Deputy Angélica de la Peña of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), president of the Special Commission on Childhood, Adolescents and Families in the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House), indicated in a press conference that 99% Of all domestic workers In Mexico are adolescents and girls who do not study in school, and who are vulnerable to sexual abuse in their work-places.

Deputy de la Peña stated that 40,000 of these workers are under 14-years-of-age, children who depend upon their employers for shelter and food. They have no set list of work tasks, and no work schedule.

Domestic work is considered to be the least respected, the most poorly paid and the least regulated form of work.

Although the Mexican Constitution states that children must be provided with food, healthcare, education and recreation for their integral development, and prohibits youth under age 14 from working, the reality is that Mexican society is violating that sacred concept.

Mexico is also a signatory to the International Labor Organization's Convention 182, prohibiting the worst forms of child labor.

Faced with these realities, Deputy de la Peña is proposing that the Mexican Congress modify Article 175 of Mexico's employment Law, to completely eliminate child domestic work. In addition, the Deputy would like to add an Article 21 to the Law for Child and Adolescent Protection, to specifically defend children from forms of work that subject them to sexual, physical or psycho-logical harm.

- CIMAC Noticias
Dec. 09, 2005
México

Women labor leaders in Mexico held a press conference to announce that, despite the fact that violence against women in the workplace is a constant reality, official action against these aggressions are few, and that employers and government institutions still see workplace sexual violence as ‘natural.’

Organizers of the event are promoting their Women’s Political Agenda in Relation to Political Power, which emphasizes the importance of creating environments free of workplace violence, particularly sexual harassment and assault.

Daisy Hernandez, member of National Union of Education Workers (SNTE)…
“Violence against women in the workplace has not been seriously investigated, and when there are investigations, it is apparent that money corrupts the companies and government agencies involved, since there are never any results.â€