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Misclassifying Port Truck Drivers
Workers and taxpayers pay the price when port trucking companies misclassify their employee drivers as independent contractors. Read More
Tackling the Long-Term Unemployment Crisis
Our issue brief explores what the Obama administration, Congress, and business leaders can do. Read More
Low-Bid Federal Contracting Promotes Poverty-Wage Jobs
NELP's report surveys federally contracted low-wage workers, and shows more than 1 in 3 need public assistance to get by. Read More
Does Your State Have Work-Sharing?
Work-sharing is an unemployment insurance program that prevents layoffs and saves jobs. Federal grants are available to implement work-sharing. Read More
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- 03-13-14 NELP urges swift passage of bipartisan Senate agreement to restore federal jobless aid for the long-term unemployed. Read More
- 03-13-14 NELP applauds President Obama's directive to expand overtime pay. Read More
- 03-12-14 NELP's Eunice Cho testifies before the California State Assembly Labor Committee on Protecting Subcontracted Workers Read More
- 03-07-14 Upcoming webinar: "Is Your City and County Ready to Implement California's New "Ban the Box" Law?" Read More
- 03-07-14 NELP's Arun Ivatury on McDonald's acknowledging that it may need to pay its workers better, in Huffington Post op-ed. Read More
- 03-07-14 Jobs report offers little relief for two million long-term unemployed cut off from federal jobless aid. Read More
- 03-06-14 NELP's Anastasia Christman on how public transit agencies that buy buses and trains with federal funds can ensure fair pay for contract workers, in The Hill op-ed. Read More
- 03-06-14 Poll: 57 Percent of Business Owners Support $10.10 Minimum Wage Read More
- 03-04-14 NELP: 2 million long-term unemployed now without jobless aid. Read More
- 02-27-14 NELP's Jack Temple on why businesses like the Gap and Costco support raising the minimum wage, in Reuters op-ed. Read More
