National Employment Law Project

📰Thrilled to share NELP's new report by our President & CEO, Rebecca Dixon, and senior researcher and policy analyst Amy Traub, "Desegregating Opportunity: Why Uprooting Occupational Segregation is Key to Building a #GoodJobsEconomy," is up on our site. Read it here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eGyHgFTT

All #workers, regardless of their #immigration status, have a right to be paid for their work. That’s why we, along with Legal Aid at Work, Make the Road New Jersey, and 9 other organizations + unions filed an amicus brief yesterday in support of a #NewJersey worker’s petition to the NJ Supreme Court. In the brief, we ask the court to hear the worker’s case and reverse a harmful decision that would deny him and other undocumented workers this fundamental right. Amici parties, including NELP, ask the New Jersey Supreme Court to take this case and reverse the appellate court’s ruling to ensure Mr. Lopez and other NJ workers like him are again fully protected under the state’s bedrock wage and hour laws. https://lnkd.in/eusdygXV

Tell the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enact a strong and comprehensive worker heat protection standard now! Submit your public comment on the proposed rule and help protect 36 million #workers from preventable heat illness. Commonsense measures can save worker lives during heat waves. bit.ly/OSHA-HeatComment #HeatJustice #LaborDay

This #LaborDay weekend, #workers deserve lifesaving #HeatProtections, writes National COSH - National Council for Occupational Safety and Health's Jessica Martinez in The Progressive Magazine. Read her piece here: https://lnkd.in/ddpxuGWJ

#ExtremeHeat is likely to reshape all workplaces, and it will bring with it what Anastasia Christman, senior policy analyst at NELP, called an “ideological challenge” on a new scale. Soon—sooner than we may think—workplaces will not be able to continue with business as usual. “There’s going to come a point where those packages aren’t going to get delivered and those trucks aren’t going to be rolling out, because there’s not going to be any workers healthy enough to do it,” Christman said. “If workers aren’t kept safe, companies won’t be able to continue to function.” Read the full piece in Mother Jones: https://lnkd.in/gFiXxjST

NELP denounces the decision by a #Texas federal judge to block the Federal Trade Commission's rule banning corporate-imposed #noncompete provisions that trap #workers in jobs they don't want. Our statement: https://lnkd.in/em2EFpEq

Please watch this short film on the costs of extreme heat to workers and their families and our Nation and the proposed National Standard from Biden Harris to protect outdoor workers. Thank you, Juanita Constible, for raising your voice for workers at every opportunity! If feels more like a chorus when I see your post, rather than a solo, I so appreciate your voice, your work and your persistence!

Next Tuesday, August 6, join NELP Unemployment Insurance Campaign Coordinator Alexa Tapia as she moderates “Winning the UI Battle: Highlighting Responses to Misclassification Schemes,” #webinar, featuring speakers from NELP, Greater Boston Legal Services, and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A. Don't miss it; register here: https://lnkd.in/e-ukUbNP

Victory for #workers in #Michigan! Today, the Michigan Supreme Court reinstated a 2018 ballot measure seeking to increase the #MinimumWage to $12 & gradually phase out the harmful subminimum tipped wage. As a result, approximately 494,000 workers will benefit! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gE3yiFXm

Last up in our Deep Dive series on how cities & states can protect against TRAPs is by Khandice Lofton and Johnathan F. Harris of the Student Borrower Protection Center. Law enforcement & consumer regulators can look to their own consumer laws to expand protections for #workers from TRAPs. #StopWorkerTRAPs https://lnkd.in/gbhy_RWp