History and Now
Earlier immigrants were not treated fairly. The Chinese and Irish labors came to San Francisco a hundred year ago was one of the typical cases. The situation has been improved over time since the countries enforce legal actions on human rights; however, surprisingly, the challenge is still existing, even in the developing countries.
I’m a volunteer of an ongoing wage theft elimination movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. November 2016, we revealed many restaurant owners in Santa Clara County did not pay their employees: $3.4+ million, nearly 1,000 families, over $4,000 per family on average. The amounts are over half a million dollars in tax revenue lost. June 2018, California State ordered a restaurant firm in Palo Alto to pay $5 million in back wages to its workers and penalties to the state for wage-theft violations.
It is not easy. Formerly, we made a mobile app for labors to collect their working hours and designed an infographic instruction without text to reduce language barrier. It was not legal-proved. Lately, the legal council accepts the Timeline records in the Google Map App. Then we encourage labors to turn the feature on, but the data consolidation is a lot of manual works before we can automate the process.
Instruction Card Design, 2018-2019
Here is the new a graphical instruction card to guide filed labors activating Google Map Timeline feature as legal proof of working hours for fair pay.
Promotion Card Design, 2017
The instruction card designed in 2017 to promote the mobile app. No text except the search keyword "WorkerReport" for non-English speaking labors.
"For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light."
— Luke 8:17, Bible.
Social justice will take place once the facts are revealed and empathy is raised.