WBL Workshop #3

In this workshop, I learned many things and took down notes since I wasn't able to participate in the second one. Here are the stuff that I took down. As a worker, you have right to stuff like the right to have a fair and full day job. You also have the right for a safe work place and equal opportunity. There are some dangers when working like having an injury. There are over 200,000 young workers that got injured while working. 1 teen dies every 5 days because of working. This is why we need to be cautious when working. I also learned that is you are under 18, you can't drive a car, slice bread and meat in a machine, use power tools and work on a roof. There are more, but these are the important ones.

When you are 14-15, you cannot work more than 3 hours on a school day and more than 8 hours in other days. Workers that stay in school actually earn more money than students with just a high school degree. College students that work gain 70% more than high school students. There are worker compensation when things gone badly. All of the medical expenses will be paid by the employer if the employee got injured in the job. The OSHA or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an organization that gives workers’ rights. For example, workers have the rights to refuse work if they fell that the environment is unsafe. Labor unions are also another group that protect the rights of workers like the OSHA. This is what I learned in the 3rd workshop.