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The Safe Passage worker who was shot in the head on Monday afternoon in front of Washington D.C.'s Coolidge High School died late Monday night in the ...

Contee expressed optimism on Tuesday that investigators would be able to track down the suspect soon. Over 24 hours after the shooting took place, pieces of police tape remain close to the scene. "Someone is out there to make sure the kids get back and forth to school, when they're dropped off, safe, and to return home safe," said Williams. With reminders of the violence that took place near three D.C. His neighborhood was taped off as police investigated. But Contee says detectives are still working to determine who the suspect is. The program Police say the mystery shooter drove off. What can I say?" That investigation continues to progress." "What I will say at this point is we're gonna go where the evidence takes us," Contee said. [man who was shot in the head](https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-shot-in-front-of-coolidge-hs-leading-to-lockdowns-at-three-dc-schools/3266959/) on Monday afternoon in front of Washington D.C.'s Coolidge High School died late Monday night in the hospital, police confirmed.

An employee of D.C.'s Safe Passage initiative died after being shot Monday, and police are still looking for suspects.

“As soon as we do have any kind of description (of the suspect), we can release to the public. After law enforcement secured the area, students were dismissed away from the crime scene. Anytime it hits this close to our children, it’s even more egregious,” Heraud said. Wells Middle School and Whittier Elementary School — were placed on lockdown for about an hour. [responded to gunfire](https://twitter.com/DCPoliceDept/status/1619054969851711488) in the 6400 block of 5th Street NW on Friday. Three schools in the immediate area — in addition to Coolidge, Ida B.

We know the sex worker storyline: A “hooker” is killed, a girl is “rescued” from a brothel, a beautiful woman “cons” the nice guy into paying for her time ...

And a lot of them want to make or want to work on films that are about sex work, but don't want to out themselves, because that’s such a complicated thing to navigate. And I think now that it's out, and I feel like a lot of workers are happy with it, I'm willing to ask for help to spread it around. So the film has the potential to show in the US, but not so much for me to attend and speak on it or see its receival. I did get asked by a sex worker film festival ‘ Sex Worker Fest’ to screen in their program, which would be the dream context for it to be shown. And the US is the lead in filmmaking across the world. They don't let sex workers into the US because they just assume that if you're a sex worker, you're travelling there to do sex work. the painfulness of a breakup and the desire to seek closure. Because it's a mostly anonymous industry ( in order to keep both workers and client’s safe), people do gain a lot of insight from fiction and narrative on film. Art has the potential to be a little bit pretentious, inaccessible and classist whereas film feels a bit more approachable for the everyday. It's a breakup comedy workplace drama, set in the work environment of a brothel. I started out stripping, doing the odd sugar baby gig, and have been doing full service for the last three and a half years. A VCA grad film produced in Melbourne, House of Whoreship is a queer comedy-drama based in a brothel.

Labour shortages are one of the biggest threats to the logistics sector and pay alone will not fix the problem, a holistic solution is needed.

We need to reform regulation to support and reflect this through a framework that provides for genuine democracy, giving a voice to everyone. On a global level, speakers called for greater governmental effort to empower workers in developing economies. He added: “Pay is an issue, because if workers cannot afford to work in these jobs, they will have to go elsewhere.

Authorities have not yet released the name of the victim, who was not on duty at the time of the shooting but was wearing a Safe Passage vest.

Safe Passage was launched in 2017 to respond to concerns about youth safety, including intimidation, harassment and threats of violence that young people face while walking or riding public transit to school. Gaddis was not on duty at the time of the shooting but was wearing a Safe Passage vest. “And right now, we’re not in a position where we actually know who that is.”

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Metropolitan Police have identified the man killed outside a Northwest DC high school Monday afternoon as 36-year-old Michael ...

FOX 5's Adrienne DiPiazza caught up with Lisa Gaddis, the mother of 36-year-old Michael Gaddis who was shot and killed outside Coolidge High School in Northwest ...

Gaddis said regardless of what led up to the shooting, her son did not need to die. Police, Gaddis, and the shooter were in some kind of fight at the intersection of Somerset Place and 5th Street before he was shot. "I have a lot of friends that tragedies and stuff have happened with them, but I would never think that it would hit this close to home." "Nobody is perfect, but I would never think that this would happen," Ms. Michael Gaddis was the oldest of four sons and had four children himself, ages ranging from 17 to just 8 months old. "He loved his kids, he loved his family, his friends," she said.

The man who was shot in the head in broad daylight in front of a Washington, DC high school has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

30, officers from the Fourth District were called to the 500 block of Somerset Place in Northwest DC to investigate reports of a shooting. No information about a possible suspect, or motive for the fatal shooting. 31 as the man who was shot and killed near Coolidge High School.

According to the police, the arrested, Deepak Goyal, had procured the weapons ahead of Punjab assembly elections last year.

The man told the police that Goyal was also in possession of five locally made pistols, said sources. His father Sanjeev Goyal had also joined the AAP. Sources said that apart from self-defence, Goyal kept the weapons with a motive to kill a person hailing from Khanna against whom he nursed an enmity.

Khanna Police in Punjab's Ludhiana district on Tuesday arrested an "Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker" hailing from the Malaud area with five illegal weapo.

Police added that on questioning, the accused had divulged details about the sarpanch of a village who was arrested in the case. AAP sources said that Deepak, along with his father Sanjeev Goyal, had joined the party as worker before state elections in presence of AAP’s Punjab affairs co-incharge Jarnail Singh and Manwinder Singh Giaspura, MLA from Payal. On January 26, police had arrested Akashdeep Singh of Malerkotla district after it had recovered an illegal Austria-make Glock pistol, an imported and sophisticated weapon mostly used by the state police legally.

Durban — The State said there was no DNA required in the case against a 35-year-old man charged with the alleged rape of his 6-year-old child.

“The fact that it was a complex assault both sexual and physical makes it particularly concerning. In terms of investigations a J88 has been prepared and filed, no DNA is required for this case, I ask that matter be adjourned for the forensic social worker’s report to be filed,” she said. They need to be sentenced and kept in prison for the longest time.

"We have to make the voice of workers heard and if there is a directive on their working conditions, it has to be in favour of the workers, ...

And the burden of proving otherwise should be on the platform, not on the worker. "Digital labour companies operate in the same environment as other employers. "We want a strong directive so they can be real self-employed," he added. so delivery drivers on platforms such as Uber or Deliveroo should be considered employees, not self-employed. "We have to make the voice of workers heard and if there is a directive on their working conditions, it has to be in favour of the workers, not the platforms," Leïla Chaibi (The Left), one of the leading MEPs on the report, told EUobserver during the meeting between politicians and workers. The call to action, entitled "Time to Deliver (rights)", came one day before the outcome of the votes that will determine the European Parliament's position on the directive proposed by the EU Commission in December 2021.

The former Brighton Caravan Park could be converted into worker accommodation for people building the new Dunedin hospital. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH.

"The density of the units does not allow for the provision of areas for residents to gather and socialise, which is important for maintaining a safe and healthy culture within a worker camp." "The employer of the people living on-site is to have a staff health policy relevant to staff living away from their normal homes," the draft stated. Shared transportation to and from the site for employment would be provided.

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of democracy. NPR's Investigations team is looking into the unprecedented number of threats against election ...

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The “minimum employment period” is the least length of time an employee must be employed before they can terminate a contract.

Several people have been shot at a Washington, D.C. Metro station, killing one person and injuring three others.

In a separate incident the next day, a teenager shot three people at the Benning Road station. He talked to someone getting a MetroCard at a fare machine and shot them in the legs. The suspect continued down the escalator and got in an altercation with a woman on the station's platform. The suspect was in an argument, followed the victim off the bus, and then shot them in the legs. The suspect on the platform alone when he was taken into custody. Blue, Orange and Silver Line train service was suspended between the closed Federal Center SW and Minnesota Avenue stations while police investigated. One of them attempted to intervene and was shot by the shooter. The Metro employee who was killed has been identified as Robert Cunningham, 64. In the end, authorities said a Metro employee was killed and three other people were injured. He may have also pulled the victim over the turnstiles, according to police. That person ran off and was transported to a hospital, police said. D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser, Metro's GM Randy Clarke and Metro Transit Police leaders were also at the scene.

Police say a gunman killed a transit worker and shot two others in a series of shootings.

[Half Moon Bay](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/01/25/heres-what-we-know-about-the-66-year-old-suspect-in-the-half-moon-bay-shooting/?sh=503c19283234) that left 7 people dead, and anther at a dance hall in [Monterey Park](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/01/26/monterey-park-suspect-had-no-connection-to-victims-police-say-as-they-search-for-motive/?sh=7cfc08dc5f0c), where 11 people were killed. Three more people were killed in a shooting last weekend north of [Beverly Hills](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/01/28/at-least-3-dead-in-4th-california-mass-shooting-this-month/?sh=2d2bbb57dd83), California. Wednesday morning, Metropolitan Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict said in a The victim who was killed was a Metro employee who had tried to apprehend the shooter as he approached a third person at the station, Benedict said. After an initial “altercation” on a bus, the shooter followed one person from the bus, shooting them in the legs, according to police. A gunman opened fire on commuters in a Metro station and near a public bus in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities, killing a transit employee who tried to apprehend the shooter and injuring two others with gunfire.

A witness said the gunman muttered “I'm the killmonger” before entering the station and firing several shots.

Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said employee safety is a primary concern, adding that “Metro is incredibly safe” and gun violence is a societal problem that extends far beyond the transit agency. One commuter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of his safety, said he was on the bus on his way to work when he saw a man pull a gun and put it to the head of another passenger. police said the fight then spilled onto a sidewalk, where a man brandished a gun and fired shots that hit a man, and a boy and girl, ages 6 and 9, who had been on the bus. Minutes later, the bus pulled up to the Potomac Avenue Metro station and the doors opened. “In the industry that we’re in, there’s a lot of banter and playfulness. Transit police last year investigated 129 more serious crimes on the Metrobus system, including offenses such as homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, rape and arson, a figure that is 33 more than in 2021, when ridership also was lower. A Metro employee, identified by the transit agency as Robert Cunningham, 64, witnessed the altercation and tried to intervene, police said. A low-voltage mechanic, he handled repairs and emergencies related to power at Metro stations and other buildings, but often worked in tunnels and near the electrified third rail. The gunman, who had been riding the bus, followed a fellow passenger off and shot the person in the legs as the passenger ran away. “A gentle giant,” Bowen said of Cunningham, who he figured was about 6-foot-3. Bowser (D) said much was unknown about the circumstances of the shooting, other than “we had a person with a gun who’s created yet another tragedy in our city.” train station platform in a shooting rampage that injured three others, halted rail service for hours and again left residents unsettled as the city continues to confront gun violence.

A Washington Metro employee is dead and three other people injured after a gunman opened fire at Southeast D.C.'s Potomac Avenue station early Wednesday.

“I just hope that we can all reflect on that and give thanks to the people that work so hard for us in public service every day.” “We will work hand-in-hand with Metro to complete this investigation.” ”We understand that the employee acted with extreme bravery to help a customer who was being threatened by the shooter.” Detectives believe the gunman followed one of the riders off the bus and shot them in the leg before entering the station. police Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict termed a “series of individual events” began when the suspect brandished a gun while engaging with passengers on a Metrobus. police said they arrested Isaiah Trotman, 31, of Southeast D.C., in connection to the shooting.

A D.C. Metro transit employee was shot and killed Wednesday morning while trying to help a woman being threatened by a gunman at the Potomac Avenue Station.

The name of the suspect has not been released. After shooting his first two victims the gunman got into an altercation with the woman on the station platform. WASHINGTON — A D.C.

D.C. police said a Metro worker was killed and three other people were wounded Wednesday morning in separate shootings in and near the Potomac Avenue ...

Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said he expects service to resume sometime Wednesday afternoon or evening. But the fact that our citizens have to intervene with armed gunmen is disturbing to me.” The shooting was first reported around 9:20 a.m.

Amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations fail to address the power imbalances at the heart of the temporary foreign worker program.

[history of medical repatriations](https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20140014) faced by this workforce, in which injured and sick workers are prematurely deported. These amendments are intended to enhance protections for migrant workers and ensure the integrity of the government’s [temporary foreign worker program](https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/temporary-foreign-worker.html). What’s more, it doesn’t guarantee future re-employment via the temporary foreign worker program, nor does it provide workers with the housing or support they require to find new employment. [physical and psychosocial health risks](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01692-7) that are compounded by the precarious circumstances they face in Canada. Injured and sick workers are often repatriated before they can access health care and/or workers’ compensation. Under the new amendments, the government of Canada once again normalizes this role. In fact, they risk further cementing some of these systemic problems. To seriously respect the rights of migrant workers, Canada needs to transform the structure of the temporary foreign worker program to curtail the power and impunity of employers and embed rights and protections for workers. [ineffective mechanism](https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11030036) to report workplace abuse because it places the burden of proof on the worker. [Our research](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01692-7) shows that the conditions of employment under Canada’s temporary foreign worker program generate [significant challenges](https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152643) to [workers’ health](https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714789.00024), the protection of [their rights](https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13027) and even their survival. While acknowledging some of the issues facing migrant workers in Canada, the amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations fail to address the power imbalances at the heart of the temporary foreign worker program. [amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations](https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-07-06/html/sor-dors142-eng.html) to include new employer obligations.