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educated about and trained in their labor rights and their employers’ responsibilities. The co-enforcement model has some challenges. Building relationships between workers and the Official Whoskid In My Future Bass Era Shirt it is in the first place but officials of government agencies — both of whom are busy working, and not in the same places — can be hard. Government procedures that require confidentiality can be difficult to square with the community’s desire for transparency. But the deeper the co-enforcement model has taken root, the better the outcomes that have emerged — for business, consumers, the agency, and for workers themselves. There have been many promising lessons. One is that such collaborations render government officials more knowledgeable about labor violations, and sophisticated in their approach to enforcement. The second is that the state agency can only fulfill its mission with the support of community partners (which is why the November 2024 ballot initiative to gut the Private Attorneys General Act is such a threat). The most important aspect of a co-enforcement model is that it enables an organized and informed workforce to demand and attain compliance with the labor standards to which they are entitled under law. Co-enforcement provides direct connection, funding, and legitimacy that can be game-changing for empowering workers. It also provides enforcement agencies with a trove of new education and connections to the underground economy. Co-enforcement is a win-win-win for workers, for community organizations, and for government agencies seeking effective and efficient ways to enforce laws in the low-wage sectors. We need this California model of win-win-win to go national. Seema N. Patel is the Thomas C. Grey Fellow & Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and recently completed a term as Practitioner-in-Residence at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. She wrote this for Zócalo Public Square, an Arizona State University media enterprise. TAGGED: equal pay, labor laws, Minimum wage, PAGA, San Francisco, worker protection, Zocalo Public Square

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