Sergeant Flint Paul, a career officer with the San Francisco Police Department, began his gender-affirming transition more than fifteen years ago. In 2006, after eleven years with the Department, he came out in his workplace as transgender and requested to be addressed by his chosen name “Flint” and with male pronouns. Over the next fourteen… Continue reading Impact Fund and Legal Aid at Work Settle Workplace Harassment Claims of Transgender San Francisco Police Sergeant
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Impact Fund and Legal Aid at Work Settle Workplace Harassment Claims of Transgender San Francisco Police Sergeant
Covid-19 Update: Legal Information for Workers during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Many workers have questions about how the Coronavirus outbreak will affect their jobs and income. For questions about how to get time off from work for reasons related to COVID-19 and income when you are not working (whether you are ill, caring for another, or have had your hours cut), tap the green button below… Continue reading Covid-19 Update: Legal Information for Workers during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Molly Lao Selected for Skadden Fellowship with Legal Aid at Work
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation selected Molly Lao, currently a third-year law student a Berkeley Law, to be a Skadden Fellow with Legal Aid at Work. Will establish a medical-legal-social services partnership with a local one-stop resource and community health center, to provide employment representation for formerly incarcerated individuals with disabilities in Fresno.
Say Their Names: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn the transgender and gender non-conforming people who have been killed in 2020. As we remember these remarkable individuals, we also condemn the sweeping discrimination and violence facing the transgender community and Black and Latinx transgender women in particular. With the memories of those we have lost in mind,… Continue reading Say Their Names: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020
Alexx Campbell and Daniela Urban Discuss Delays in Unemployment Benefits Appeals Process with the SF Chronicle
LAAW’s George Warner Discusses How Many Workers’ Status as Employees Was not Affected by Prop 22 in the San Francisco Chronicle
Temple University features Elizabeth Kristen’s work helping Black WWII veteran upgrade his discriminatory “blue discharge”
Today is Latina Equal Pay Day!
Today, October 29, 2020, is Latina Equal Pay Day. This date marks the day when Latinas will have finally earned the same amount of money that a white man would have earned last year. Because a Latina woman earns just 54.5 cents on every dollar a white man earns, it takes a Latina woman 671… Continue reading Today is Latina Equal Pay Day!