Explore the Issues
NELP leads the fight for a good-jobs economy. Learn more about our priority issues and how we work to achieve our mission: good jobs for everyone.
Our Priority Issues
Fight Workplace Discrimination in All Its Forms
Your race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, conviction record, family or immigration status, or disability should not limit your job opportunities.
Climate Justice at Work
Climate change is shifting what a good job looks like. When danger strikes, workers must be able to take control over their own safety in the workplace.
Strengthen Contracted Workers’ Rights and Employer Accountability
Employers often use contracted labor arrangements to shed responsibility for job quality. NELP works to ensure that employers are accountable to every worker powering their businesses.
Hold Corporations Accountable for Workers’ Rights
Corporations must respect workers’ rights and treat workers fairly and humanely—and be held accountable when they fail to do so.
Make Workplaces Safer and Healthier
Workers are demanding safe and healthy workplaces and are organizing to make it happen.
Uplift and Protect the Rights of Immigrant Workers
All workers, regardless of immigration status, should have the opportunity to thrive in good jobs.
Every Job Should Pay a Living Wage
NELP is fighting to raise the wage floor so it reaches a true living wage that people and families can live on.
Desegregate the Job Market
Workers are organizing to win policies that remove structural barriers to mobility, so that all workers have the opportunity to move into good jobs and thrive.
Upholding Workers’ Rights Is Central to a Good-Jobs Economy
We aim to shift the power balance between workers and employers so that workers can assert their rights and improve their workplace conditions.
Workers Are Building Power Together
In a good-jobs economy, workers build power to collectively shape working conditions and influence the rules and structures of work so that their communities can thrive.
Expand Unemployment Insurance for People Out of Work
Workers deserve economic security between jobs. Yet exclusionary and under-resourced unemployment insurance systems leave jobseekers struggling to get by.
We're Building a Good-Jobs Economy
Nearly half of all workers in the U.S. make less than $15 per hour. More people than ever are working in jobs that pay too little and offer too few benefits.
We’re leading the fight for a good-jobs economy, in which every single job is a good job, everyone who wants a job can get one, and everyone has economic security between jobs. A good-jobs economy is a just and inclusive economy in which all workers have the opportunity to thrive.
We won’t stop until every job is a good job.
Join the Fight for Good Jobs
There are many ways you can get involved in the good-jobs movement. Take action right now by funding our research, writing to your congressperson, or simply listening and learning about the work we do.
Want to join the fight for a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs? Find out how to take action now.
Your donation transforms
- tomorrow's laws
- workers' jobs
- people's futures
- families' economic security
Everyone deserves a good job. By giving today, you can support our work as we fight for a good-jobs economy in which every single job is a good job, everyone who wants a job can get one, and everyone has economic security between jobs.