THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN CELEBRATING NELP’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY

See NELP50 Gala and Conference details, an interactive timeline, and blog series

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Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It

Uber & Handy have teamed up with the far right to rewrite laws across the country, to workers’ detriment.

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Workplace Safety Enforcement Continues to Decline in Trump Administration

Under the Trump administration, OSHA enforcement activity —crucial to saving workers’ lives—is declining.

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Raises from Coast to Coast in 2019

Workers will see bigger paychecks as 19 states and 21 cities #RaiseTheWage in the New Year.

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A State Agenda for America’s Workers

18 Ways to Promote Good Jobs in the States

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How to Access Disaster Unemployment Assistance After the Midwest Floods

A fact sheet on Disaster Unemployment Assistance for workers and farmers unemployed due to the Midwest floods

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Guide Helps Employers Respond to Immigration Action

NELP and NILC have published a guide for employers on how they can prepare for immigration enforcement.

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Connecticut To Become Seventh State in Nation, Fourth This Year to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage

Legislators in Connecticut reached a historic deal this week to raise wages for more than 330,000 workers earning the state’s(…)

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Uber Drivers Should be Eligible for Unemployment Compensation: What’s at Stake in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Case

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News About a Year-end Leadership Transition

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On the NLRB Memo Finding Uber Drivers to Be Independent Contractors

The NLRB memo ignores the reality of Uber’s relationship with its drivers and the myriad ways it controls their work.

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Activists Rally in Albany Demanding Labor Protections for Long-Excluded Farmworkers

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Colorado Legislature Approves Landmark Bill to Repeal Preemption of Local Minimum Wage Laws

Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign the bill into law.

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Home Care Workers Will Fight Trump Administration’s Latest Move to Silence Workers’ Voices

A new Trump administration rule prohibits home care workers from paying their union dues directly from their Medicaid-funded paychecks.

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DOL Opinion Letter Offers Gig Employer Free Pass to Misclassify Workers

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Meet the Warehouse Workers Challenging Amazon and Walmart

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How Lee Saunders and AFSCME Built Worker Power Post-Janus

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NELP: A History of Advancing Workplace Protections

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Regional Approach to Federal Minimum Wage Would Keep Wages Artificially Low in Many Parts of U.S.

The regional approach would bake-in wages that are already artificially low in many parts of the country.

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Ford Foundation’s Anna Wadia Honored as NELP Beth Shulman Fellow

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DOL ‘Joint Employer’ Proposal Would Upend Decades of Worker Protections

DOL’s proposal would make it harder for workers to enforce wage and hour laws.

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Overcoming Gubernatorial Veto and Preemption Threat, Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage Rate

Maryland becomes the sixth state in the nation—and the first south of the Mason-Dixon line—to adopt a $15 minimum wage.

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NELP Honors Young Leaders of Make the Road New Jersey

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POLL: 2/3 Voters in ‘Battleground’ Congressional Districts Support Federal Minimum Wage of $15 by 2024

A new opinion poll confirms the popularity of the Raise the Wage Act.

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Poll: Nearly 2/3 Florida Voters Oppose State Legislature’s Efforts to Strip Cities and Counties of Existing Powers

One misguided bill would ban all local laws pertaining to any “employment conditions.”

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NELP Report Exposes Gig Companies’ Campaign to Strip Workers of Employee Rights 

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A Legacy of Fighting Back: Taking on the Exploitative “Workfare” System

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Featured Publications

Report

Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It

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Fact Sheet

The Federal Minimum Wage Should Be a Robust National Wage Floor, Not Adjusted Region by Region

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Data Brief

Workplace Safety Enforcement Continues to Decline in Trump Administration

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Policy Brief

A State Agenda for America’s Workers: 18 Ways to Promote Good Jobs in the States

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Building Safe and Healthy Workplaces for Every Worker in America

Nearly three million workers are seriously injured on the job every year.

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Raising the Minimum Wage

More workers than ever are struggling to get by on low-wage jobs.

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Ensuring People with Convictions Have a Fair Chance to Work

A conviction in one’s past shouldn’t be a life sentence to joblessness.

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Are the Trump Administration and Congress Really "Putting Workers First?”

See our new resource page tracking day-to-day developments on worker issues under the current administration and Congress.

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