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From YouTube: February 14, 2022 Workplace Advisory Committee Meeting
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C
F
This
is
madeline
with
the
advocates
for
human
rights.
I
was
hoping
you
were
going
to
jump
on
on
this
yeah,
so
I
have
two
state
legislative
updates.
One
is
that
there's
a
bill
that's
been
introduced
to
establish
a
working
group
that
working
group
is
going
to
examine
how
to
improve
the
state's
response
to
labor
trafficking,
specifically
in
providing
services.
Ensuring
victims
are
safe,
evaluating
and
tracking
data
on
labor
trafficking.
F
F
It
lists
a
very
comprehensive
list
of
the
stakeholders
that
should
participate
in
the
working
group
and
the
push
is
to
have
a
less
lengthy
list
of
people
who
are
members
of
the
working
group,
partly
because
becoming
an
official
like
a
working
group
under
state
legislation
is
actually
an
extremely
specific
thing
that
involves
like
paying
people,
and
you
know
it's
very
official.
It's
not
like
the
name
for
a
casual
group
of
people,
it's
like
a
thing,
and
so
they
want
fewer
people.
F
I
can't
remember
them
all,
but
and
then
also
the
county,
attorney's
association,
public
defenders,
I
don't
know,
what's
happening
with
municipal
labor
standards,
because
on
the
one
hand
you
guys
are
government
agencies,
but
on
the
other
hand,
they
may
not
consider
you
the
equivalent
of
a
state
agency,
minnesota
department
of
health,
which
is
the
state
agency.
That's
going
to
be
tasked
with
running.
F
The
working
group
has
assured
me
that
they
are
extremely
committed
to
involving
all
of
the
stakeholders
that
were
named
in
the
initial
draft
of
the
legislation
and
that
they
may
not
be
official
working
group
members,
but
they're
going
to
have
the
same
access
to
the
process
that
they
would
have
if
they
were
named
working
group
members
and
they're
even
going
to
see
if
they
can
try
to
figure
out
funding
for
that.
So
hopefully,
the
actual
end
outcome
of
the
bill
is
going
to
be
the
same
that
we're
not
going
to
see
anything
different.
F
There,
but
just
so
people
know
when
you
see
labor
unions
and
workers,
centers
have
been
taken
out.
My
understanding
is
that
everyone
who's,
not
a
government
agency,
is
going
to
get
taken
out
and
it's
the
intention
is
to
make
sure
that
everyone
is
in
there.
They,
you
know,
want
labor
and
worker
allies
to
be
part
of
this.
They
believe
that
that's
a
really
important
thing
about
labor
trafficking,
as
opposed
to
the
current
work
on
sex
trafficking.
F
The
current
idea
is
that
they
are
going
to
be
extremely
low
key
in
pursuit
pursuing
a
legislative
strategy,
they're
hoping
that
they
can
convince
warren
limmer
who's,
sort
of
the
hold
up
on
everything
to
just
ignore
what
they're
doing
and
that
they
can
slip
it
into
the
health
omnibus
and
get
it
passed
that
way
because
they're,
it's
very
minor.
So
that's
the
that's
that
one
which
has
actually
been
introduced.
F
I
also
sit
on
the
hennepin
county
labor
advisory
committee
with
some
other
people
who
are
on
the
call,
and
they
asked
susan
crum,
the
hennepin
county
attorney,
who
prosecuted
the
botra's
case
and
myself
to
take
a
stab
at
improving
the
state's
labor
trafficking
statute,
which
is
clunky
and
narrow
and
sort
of
impossible
to
use.
So
that's
been
drafted,
we
are
pursuing
a
legislative
sponsor.
The
goal
is
to
introduce
it
and
attempt
to
get
it
past
this
session
again
with
a
sort
of
low
key
like
this
is
a
very
technical
clarifying
amendment.
F
We
are
making
no
major
changes.
You
know
we're
just
you
know,
cleaning
up
the
language,
making
sure
that
it
conforms
to
minnesota
case
law,
where
we
use
federal
terms,
there's
now
going
to
be
minnesota,
relevant
language
and
yeah.
So
the
hope
is
that
that
will
go
through
the
public
safety
committees
and
not
face
a
lot
of
opposition,
because
it's
not
anything
dramatically
different
than
what
is
currently
in
the
law.
F
So
we
have
it's
getting
drafted,
we're
getting
our
legislative
sponsor
ducks
in
a
row,
but
it
should
be
introduced
soon
and
so
right
now
no
need
for
like
pressure
at
the
capitol
on
any
of
these
things.
But
if
someone's,
really
good
friends
with
warren
limmer,
let
me
know
because
or
friends
with
anyone
who
has
influence
over
war
and
glimmer
also
useful,
because
that's
the
the
what
looks
like
it's
going
to
be.
The
hang
up
for
all
of
these.
A
I
just
would
want
to
highlight
the
collaboration
happening
between
hennepin,
county
and
ramsey
county
right
now
and
madeline
you've
been
playing
a
a
big
leadership
role
in
that
work,
and
I
continually
try
to
drive
in
the
point
of
collaborating
with
the
cities
in
any
of
these
spaces
that
I'm
in
and
so
what's
your
sense
of
their
like.
How
can
the
work
of
the
city
intersect
with
the
work
that
these
counties
are
taking
on.
F
So
right
now
you
know,
I
think
the
process
at
the
moment
has
been
really
focused
on
what
I
think
of,
as
like
reassuring
law
enforcement,
that
this
is
the
thing
they
can
do.
So
they
spent
a
lot
of
time
developing
this,
like
handoff
process,
for
how
civil
authorities
can
make
criminal
referrals
for
wage
theft
and
labor
trafficking,
and
it's
something
that
has
always
been
in
the
power
of
both
civil
and
criminal
enforcement
agencies.
F
It's
not
they've,
just
basically
written
it
down
on
a
piece
of
paper,
so
I
think
that
what's
gonna
come
out
of
it
is
I
don't
know
that
we're
gonna
get
an
official
announcement,
because
this
was
started
before
mike
freeman
and
john
choi
started,
taking
a
lot
of
attacks
on
various
sentencing
decisions
and
and
whatnot,
and
so
I
think
originally
they
were
going
to
have
like
a
sort
of
splashy
like
we're
really
doing
it
on
wage
theft.
Announcement,
and
I
think
we're
not
gonna
get
that.
F
But
there
is
going
to
be
a
search
for
good
cases.
That
can
be
the
examples
for
how
to
do
this
work.
So
if
those
cases
come
out
of
the
city,
that
would
be
great
if
those
cases
come
out
of
any
of
the
groups
on
this
call
they're.
Looking
for
you
know,
their
their
sort
of
priorities
are
public
safety
impact.
So,
like
there's
some
kind
of
physical
harm
or
you
know,
community
harm
occurring,
the
amount
being
stolen
is
large.
35
000,
I
think,
was
their
sort
of
ballpark
hope.
F
F
C
C
F
Ramsey
county
is
actually
hiring
their
own
investigator
within
the
attorney's
office,
they're
bypassing
the
sheriff,
so
they
are
going
to
have
their
own
wage
theft
investigator
in
the
ramsey
county
attorney's
office.
That
hire
is,
I
think,
underway,
like
going
to
start
soon
kind
of
underway.
Wow,
that's
promising
hennepin
county.
I
think
they
don't
know
what
I
think,
but
yeah.
F
G
G
G
And
then
paid
family
medical
leave
got
a
hearing
today
in
the
house,
and
it
seems
like
the
it
seems
like
the
house
is
if,
in
fact,
the
the
set,
if
in
fact
we're
gonna
put
2.75
billion
dollars
into
re,
paying
the
unemployment
insurance
trust
fund
as
a
big
untargeted
tax
break.
That
includes
a
lot
of
big
businesses,
in
addition
to
businesses
that
actually
need
the
help,
rather
than
just
find
a
way
to
help
the
businesses
that
do
need
the
help
directly.
G
H
This
is
a
critical
of
this
fifteen
hundred
dollars
that
they're
fighting
for
is
really
critical
and
and
to
be
honest,
one
asked
what
does
15
dollars
mean
to
1500
mean
to
you
like?
Why
does
this
matter
to
you?
People
talked
about
like
well.
You
know
like,
of
course,
this
means
like
a
month's
rent.
Of
course,
this
means
like
a
bunch
of
groceries
that
like
actually
really
matters
for
the
money
that
I've
lost
during
the
pandemic,
but
just
without
it
like
every
single
worker,
what
they
were
really
saying
and
what
they
ultimately
did
say
was.
H
This
is
about
respect,
I'm
sick
of
being
told,
I'm
essential
and
that
I
you
know
that
I'm
I'm
brave
and
that
blah
blah
blah.
I
don't
care
respect
me,
recognize
me
and
that
this
is
just
a
that
that
just
that
respect
is
so
critical
and
I
just
think
we're
seeing
that
in
so
many
conversations
with
workers
about
how
much
this
is
about.
Yes,
the
money
is
important
and
workers
just
need
to
be
recognized
in
a
way
that
doesn't
feel
hollow
just
wanted
to
name
that
that's
just
been
like
resounding.
H
H
Who
is
a
she's,
a
she's,
a
labor
professor
at
rutgers
university
who's
done
a
lot
of
work
around
co-enforcement
across
the
country
and
and
is
leading
a
pilot
project
in
the
city
of
minneapolis.
Now,
in
relation
together
with
main
street
alliance,
to
pull
together
these,
like
really
small
businesses
and
say
what
are
the
obstacles
to
compliance
so
that
they
can
do
phase.
One
is
like
really
gathering
probing
questions
figuring
out.
I
Thanks
veronica
for
doing
that
on
main
street,
I
knew
that
was
happening,
but
I
haven't
been
tracking
it
as
closely.
So
that's
I'm
excited
about
the
rutgers
work.
I
just
wanted
to
add.
I
wasn't
sure
if
everybody
saw
this,
but
main
street
has
been
fairly
vocal
about
the
the
relief
through
the
unemployment
insurance
is
not
an
actual
relief
to
small
businesses
and
danny
schwartzman
of
common
roots
wrote
an
editorial,
etc.
E
E
Hop
in
quick
and
thanks
veronica,
I
really
look
forward
to
that,
how
that's
working
and
that
pilot
project-
I
think
that
sounds
really
interesting
and
just
to
see
how
that
is
playing
out
in
minneapolis
going
forward.
They'll
be
really
helpful
to
learn
more
about
that.
So
I
really
appreciate
that
for
next
month
and
learning
more
and
kate
I'd
actually
like
to
connect
with
you
and
hear
more
about
that
small
business
perspective.
You
know
for
it's,
it's
not
there's
a
lot
of
different
businesses
that
are
impacted.
E
E
I
know
there's
some
packages
out
there
and
there's
ideas
floating
around,
but
it's
still
early
in
session
as
the
omnibus
bills
start
to
come
together
like
what
is
available
for
that
small
business
relief.
I
think
that's
important
as
the
twin
cities
continues
to
rebuild.
We
have
to
be
investing
in
community
and
businesses
to
get
back
up
and
make
sure
people
are
back
at
work
and
working
safely
and
working
where
they
want
to
be
working
and
can
work,
there's
so
many
layers
to
this
issue.
I
C
Chelsea
I
had
a
quick
question
about
that.
I'm
also
really
excited
about
the
main
street
alliance.
Slash
janice,
fine,
small
business
outreach
work
just
identifying
the
barriers.
I
just
think
it's
really
exciting
the
sort
of
reverse
engineering
of
it.
I
guess
a
question
for
maybe
veronica
or
maybe
kate,
or
maybe
nobody
is
sure.
Yet
what's
the
time
frame
for
time
frame
for
all
that
work,
anybody
know
and
like
are
there
places
we
could
plug
in
or
like
find
here
updates
other
than
just
like
emailing
people
involved.
I
C
C
H
Yeah,
I
don't
either
I'm
having
a
meeting
with
her
and
some
of
the
organizers
next
week,
so
I
will
have
some
more
information
cool.
Hopefully,
then,
maybe
I
can
ask
about
timeline
too,
but
I
am.
I
have
also
been
actively
thinking
about
ways
that
this
group
intersects
with
the
worksheet
I
mean.
Obviously
main
street,
is
the
core
organization
which
makes
a
lot
of
sense.
But
I've
been
thinking
about
that
too.
Yeah.
C
I
just
think
it's
a
phenomenal
idea
and
really
so
important
if
we're,
if
we're
going
to
avoid
whack-a-mole
and
look
more
systemically,
like
that's
that's
kind
of
it,
maybe
veronica,
I
can
put
you
down
for
just
a
quick
update
next
month
at
our
whack
meeting.
You
can
just
tell
us
about
whatever
you
heard
from
janus
fine.
C
So
I'll
go
real,
quick
and
then
maybe
at
least
you
can
give
some
thoughts
or
reaction.
So
if
we
are
last
time
we
met
the
supreme
court
was
about,
I
think,
was
about
to
rule,
but
we
didn't
yet
know,
and
since
then
the
supreme
court
has
struck
down
as
unconstitutional
the
biden
administration,
department
of
labor
osha
rule
requiring
large
employers
to
require
of
their
employees,
either
testing
or
vaccine.
That's
all
and-
and
there
were
tons
of
questions
around
what
how
that
exactly?
C
That
would
work,
but
that's
all
struck
down,
and
I
don't
think
there's
talk
from
the
biden
administration
about.
I
think
there
was
some
you
know,
sort
of
columnist
wondering
if
the
if
like
they
would
try
again
and
like
write
it
differently
or
try
a
different
angle,
but
that
does
it
doesn't
look
like
that
has
happened
or
is
going
to
happen
so
yeah,
that's
the
update.
C
E
Yeah,
I
think
it's
correct.
You
know
the
ets
was
stalled
and
blocked
by
the
supreme
court.
There
is
an
opportunity
if
the
bind
administration
still
want
to
look
at
a
permanent
rule,
they
can
go
down
that
path.
So
that's
going
to
be
another
six
months
of
debating
whether
or
not
to
actually
draft
a
permanent
role.
You
know
the
big
pushback
from
the
supreme
court
was
that
it
also
wasn't
surgical
enough.
It
didn't
really
focus
in
on
specific
workers
who
have
some
of
the
highest
risks.
E
You
think
hospital
settings
or
correctional
settings
or
sort
of
meat
packing
plans.
Those
scenarios
where
there
was
that
higher
risk,
as
we
learned
through
the
last
two
years
of
potentially
being
positive
or
getting
sick
or
the
close
contact,
those
types
of
things
so
that
could
still
come.
I
don't
know
I
mean
I
think.
If
you
ask
someone
every
day,
they
have
a
different
opinion
of
whether
osha
will
actually
go
down
the
path
of
a
permanent
rule.
I
think
what's
more
interesting.
E
Now
is
the
mask
mandates
across
the
country,
as
they
sort
of
came
on
during
the
surge
right
during
the
december
january,
omicron
surge
and
then
states
started
lifting
those
and
what
that
implies
for
workers
or
businesses
going
forward.
You
know,
there's
osha
rules,
cdc
guidance,
a
little
bit
in
conflict
all
the
time,
seemingly
in
terms
of
what
is
safe,
and
so
I
think,
as
a
business,
you
continue
to
follow
osha
and
cdc
guidance.
We
target,
for
example,
will
not
be
implementing
the
per
se,
the
biden
ets,
so
absolutely
mandating
vaccine
or
tests
weekly.
E
However,
we
will
continue
to
follow
whatever
mandates
are
in
place
for
every
state
or
every
local
regulation,
and
it's
all
based
on
osha
and
cdc
guidance.
So
I
think,
as
a
business,
that's
what
you
have
to
base
your
policies
on
the
other
thing
to
bring
up
here,
and
some
of
you
have
probably
seen
at
the
capitol
an
interest
now
that
this
is
not
in
place
to
sort
of
put
into
place
restrictions
on
how
a
business
may
put
a
policy
in
place
if
they
wanted
to
do
it.
E
As
you
know,
some
businesses
do
still
have
this
tyson
foods
or
airlines
or
others
that
still
have
a
mandate
to
work
for
this
company.
You
have
to
be
vaccinated.
That
is
a
business
decision.
So
it's
an
interesting
take
right
now
for
some
interest,
and
I
know
there
are,
I
want
to
say
at
least
five
or
six
bills
right
now
in
minnesota,
introduced
by
generally,
the
republicans
wanting
to
have
clarity
around
how
a
business
would
put
a
policy
in
place.
E
E
You
know
a
standard
is
good,
but
it
certainly
creates
a
challenge
to
have
all
sorts
of
different
policies,
and
we
didn't
quite
know
what
covid
was
and
you
put
something
in
law
and
then
the
new
thing
comes
along
and
what
does
it
mean
and
what
type
of
flexibility
you
have
to
make
your
choices
for
what
is
safe
for
you
or
your
workers?
It.
It
gets
a
little
dicey
pretty
quickly.
So
I
have
a
feeling
the
house
will
not
hear
any
of
them
or
even
take
it
up
as
a
as
a
consideration.
I
It's
not
very
clear-cut,
and
so
I
think
iowa
is
also
hearing
from
a
lot
of
employers
of
similar
size.
You
know
100
to
500
employees
how
this
is
bringing
on
a
whole
new
level
of
employee
relations
and
assessing
religiously
held
beliefs.
That's
like
a
whole
area
that
none
of
us
really
knew
how
to
to
navigate,
and
so
the
anticipation
was
we'd
get
a
fair
amount
of
compliance.
You
know
a
lot
of
folks.
I
Might
have
80
per
85
vaccinations,
and
so,
when
you
get
into
the
mandates,
then
you're
getting
into
having
to
figure
out
how
to
maneuver
through
that
and
it's
complicated,
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
like
the
mandate
piece.
Has
this
whole
exemption
aspect
that
I
think
is
overwhelming
to
a
lot
of
employers
is
another
aspect
of
that
so
again
understand
the
intent
of
it,
but
some
of
the
application
of
it
was
really
challenging.
A
Well,
let's
move
on
to
the
arp
budget
letter,
so
we
did
send
the
arp
budget
letter
since
the
last
meeting,
and
this
is
the
first
time
it
came
from
myself
as
the
chair
versus
the
department
of
the
city
upon
recommendation
of
the
department
staff,
we've
gotten
some
good
feedback
and
some
good
questions.
We
are
gonna
and-
and
I
see
veronica
and
lucas
I
reached
out
to
you-
we
have
to
schedule
that
meeting
still
with
emily
koski.
A
But
you
know
folks
are
responding
to
this
committee
as
we
continue
and
I
unfortunately
can't
articulate
to
you
what
the
timelines
are
about
the
irp
funding.
Currently
I
don't
know
if
anybody,
I
think,
that's
I
don't
think,
there's
anybody
who
can
honestly
answer
that
question
veronica.
You
have
a
update
on
that.
A
A
A
H
Could
we
specifically,
I
know
that
the
mayor's
chief
of
staff-
I
don't
know
if
he's
on
here-
I
know-
there's
a
phone
number
that
I
don't
know,
but
he
had
said
that
he
would
wanted
to
come
to
some
of
these
meetings,
but
I
think
it
would
be
really
good
to
have
him
there.
For
that,
because
he's
been
asking
me
a
lot
of
questions
based
on
the
letter
and
the
conversations
we've
been
having
with
other
folks
could,
could
he
be
like
invited
and
told.
C
E
C
A
A
We
all
get
kick-backed
again,
so
we've
been
gathering
a
lot
of
testimony
from
downtown
workers
about
what's
happening
in
their
lives
and
what
it
means
to
be
working
in
downtown,
and
so
I'm
I
don't
know
if
march
is
gonna,
be
the
right
timeline
for
it,
but
we
do
hope
that
we
could
have
a
deeper
dive
on
the
downtown
workers
work
in
the
over
the
summer
at
least
early
summer.
If
not,
you
know,
maybe
maybe
that's
the
deep
dive
in
april.
H
Yeah
and
just
to
add,
I
know,
there's
been
a
lot
of
energy,
you
know
about
reopening
downtown
making
it
vibrant.
All
of
these.
Like
new
ideas,
are
you
know
at
the
mayor's
office
and
with
the
you
know,
downtown
business
council
like
it's
a
big
conversation
that
just
feels
like
it's
such
a
big
conversation?
H
A
A
Maybe
we
now
have
gone
through
a
pandemic
and
we're
doing
a
lot
of
other
things,
so
it
might
be
not
a
terrible
time
to
sort
of
revisit
and
be
like
what
are
we
asking
for
and
who,
in
the
city,
is
holding
this
contract
and
how
that
goes,
and
I
just
was
wondering
if
anyone
other
anyone
else
had
feedback
on
minimum
wage
study.
Work
with
the
city.
C
A
C
You
know
what
were
the
actual
impacts
of
the
minimum
wage.
The
there
was
an
rfp
right
after
the
minimum
wage
ordinance
passed.
I
think
it
was
the
university
of
minnesota
the
same
folks
that
had
did.
I
don't
know
if
you
all
remember
they
had
did
they
had
done.
Some
scholars
at
the
university
of
minnesota
had
done
a
study
before
the
minimum
wage
ordinance
passed.
C
I
don't
know
if
you
guys
remember
that
god,
what's
the
guy's
name,
you
yeah
anyway,
they
answered
the
rfp,
the
fed
answered
the
rfp,
and
I
think
there
was
one
other
organization
at
the
time.
I
remember
the
coordinator's
office
was
very
excited
about
the
fed
answering
the
rfp,
and
there
was
a
lot
of
concern
that
the
scholars
at
the?
U
of
m
weren't
like
trusted
as
neutral
or
unbiased,
at
least
not
by
the
business
side
of
things.
C
So
there
was
a
lot
of
excitement
about
the
fed
doing
this
and
on
the
fed
had
did
and
is
doing
it
for
free
and
had
some
great
ideas
about
new
ways.
To
like
look
at
data,
that's
only
available
at
the
state
level
in
minnesota
and
not
into
other
states,
don't
track
something
the
same
way
and
yeah
the
charge
was
in.
You
know
in
the
con.
C
I
guess
it's
in
the
actual
contract
between
the
city
and
the
fed,
and
it's
I'm
not
sure
that
I've
ever
actually
seen
that
the
actual
contract,
I'm
sure
it's
public
data,
so
we
could
just.
I
could
find
that
and
share
it.
If
anyone
wants
to
look
at
it
or
I
could
pull
it
up
and
and
let
everyone
know
what
it
actually
says,
but
I'm
assuming
it
says
you
know,
go
study
the
minimum
wage
and
report
back
on
a
yearly
basis
industry.
I
think
there
was
a
lot
of
attention
on
industry-specific
effects.
C
If
you
all
remember
so
much
of
the
debate
around
minimum
wage
passage,
was
restaurant
industry
focused
and
tip
credit
was
a
big.
You
know
got
took
up
a
lot
of
energy
and
space
and
in
the
public
hearing
and
all
of
that,
so
there
definitely
was
a
part
of
the
minimum
wage
study
that
was
like
pay
attention
to
the
restaurant
industry
and
service
industries,
because
we
want
to
know
what's
happening
specifically
there
and
the
fed
contract
goes.
I
think,
five
more
years
or
maybe
even
six
more
years.
C
A
C
At
least
yeah
for
sure
for
sure,
and
I
think
the
contract
manager
could
not
that
she'll
have
like
any
a
lot
more
to
add,
but
maybe
we
could
bring
her
this
summer
sometime
or
something
to
maybe
add
some
more
to
the
to
the
discussion,
and
maybe
it
would
be
interesting
to
see
her
feedback
about
her
or
her
talking
to
the
feds.
Since
it
went
through
presenting
its
last
report
and
whether
or
not
you
know
she
believes
that
the
researchers
have,
I
don't
know
learned
anything
from
this
past
go
around.
This
fall.