Legal Aid at Work’s pioneering Workers’ Rights Clinic marked its fifth anniversary serving the Fresno area this month. Consul of protection Juan Dario Constantino from the Mexican Consulate, Legal Aid at Work attorneys, LAAW board member Ana de Alba, and other volunteers joined us Tuesday night — both to work and to celebrate the milestone. With… Continue reading Fifth Anniversary of Fresno Clinic
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Equal pay: 5 ways to help maintain the momentum
Women now earn 79.5 cents for every dollar men make. That means the average woman in the U.S. has had to work all of last year and then through the first quarter of this year until today, April 4, to earn as much as the average man did last year. That’s actually more than a… Continue reading Equal pay: 5 ways to help maintain the momentum
California law protects victims of hate crimes or threats related to bias
Here is a fact sheet describing your rights under California’s Ralph Act in Spanish, Chinese, and English. A Farsi translation is here, and an Arabic translation is here. Visit our clinics and helplines page, or call 415-864-8848, for help addressing your particular situation. Remember: All workers have rights to fair pay and a workplace free of discrimination… Continue reading California law protects victims of hate crimes or threats related to bias
For International Women’s Day, ask your legislators to vote to broaden parental leave laws
Alfonso, a tow truck driver, wanted to take paternity leave to be with his newborn daughter in her first weeks of life, but his employer threatened to fire him if he took more than a week off. The company — because it has only 30 employees — was not required to hold his job, even… Continue reading For International Women’s Day, ask your legislators to vote to broaden parental leave laws
New lawsuit seeking equity for girls in high school sports
Legal Aid at Work and our co-counsel at Siegel and Yee filed a new class action under Title IX today to address inequities in sports facilities and programs in Red Bluff, Calif., near Redding. The lawsuit says boys at the school are afforded many more spots on teams than girls, even though the student body… Continue reading New lawsuit seeking equity for girls in high school sports
First we marched, now we huddle
The next step in the Women’s March “First 100 Days” campaign, a call to women and men around the country to mobilize their own communities, is to huddle and plan. Specifically, a Huddle involves gathering friends, family members, coworkers, and others to talk — and then to turn that talk into political action. Legal Aid at… Continue reading First we marched, now we huddle
Award for lead plaintiff in important Title IX victory[:zh]Award for lead plaintiff in important Title IX victory
Legal Aid at Work is celebrating the induction of Veronica Ollier Lewandowski, lead plaintiff in Ollier v. Sweetwater, into the Impact Fund’s “Class Action Hall of Fame.” The fund recognized her for the essential role she played in winning a unanimous ruling from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals applying Title IX gender equity… Continue reading Award for lead plaintiff in important Title IX victory[:zh]Award for lead plaintiff in important Title IX victory
Protesters: Know your workplace rights
There have been calls for an immigrants’ strike nationwide on Thursday, Feb. 16, and a general strike on Friday. We are not sure how many people plan to leave work to participate — or whether they will take part in other ways. But we expect workers to have questions that day and beforehand about their workplace… Continue reading Protesters: Know your workplace rights
Demolish it, and they will go away? Hardly.
The Trump administration got straight to work trying to wipe out history and civil rights. Within moments of the inauguration, it removed the database of enforcement cases from the U.S. Department of Labor website; it erased former Secretary Tom Perez’s lively and informative blog championing workers’ rights; and it obscured basic information for employers on… Continue reading Demolish it, and they will go away? Hardly.