Recently, “Breaking Down Borders: Speaking Up For Those without a Voice” discusses the challenges immigrant workers face in accessing all of their legal rights if they are injured on the job. Unfortunately, a lack of rightful remedies is not the only challenge facing immigrant workers, especially of Hispanic origin. Hispanic workers face a disproportionately high [...]

¡Cuidado!: Safety Supplanted By Silence In The Workplace
The National Safety Council declared June to be National Safety Month. What better way to address safety than to discuss workplace safety issues, as so many personal injuries take place in the course of an honest day’s work. Safety on the job is perhaps the biggest concern for [...]

If a tree falls in the forest but no one hears it, does it still make a sound? You bet it does. Similarly, just because an injured party cannot speak for himself does not mean that he does not have something to say. Entiendes?
For the millions of immigrant workers in this country, this is precisely [...]