50. Domestic Workers Have Rights

In this episode, El Tecolote reporter Lorena Garibay talks to us about her reporting domestic workers in San Francisco getting access to paid sick leave. This legislation was passed in 2022, and was celebrated and touted as the first of its kind, but questions remain as to how it will be enforced. Lorena’s reporting on this ordinance is funded by the Solutions Journalism Network, an independent, non-profit organization that advocates an approach of solutions journalism guided by evidence-based reporting to the responses of social problems. El Tecolote was selected as one of the newsrooms to participate in SJN’s Labor Cohort. In this episode, Lorena tells us about her reporting, the people she spoke with, and how the four pillars of solutions journalism guided her throughout.