News Releases | November 29, 2022

Ten Years In, Fight for $15 and a Union Movement Helped Reduce Racial Wealth Gap Nationally, Injected $87.6 Billion Annually into U.S. Economy

The Fight for $15 has helped Black and Latinx working people build wealth and inspired worker organizing across the U.S.

Press Clips | August 18, 2022

Subminimum Wages Were Always Deplorable. Inflation Is Making Them Worse.

Via: Truthout

Activists are pushing to end policies that allow employers to pay some workers less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

News Releases | July 27, 2022

NELP Commends President Biden for Nominating Jessica Looman as DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Administrator

Following is a statement from Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project: “The National Employment Law Project(…)

Blog | June 17, 2022

Reversing Labor Laws Rooted in Slavery

At-will employment and the subminimum wage emerged from the backlash to Emancipation.

Press Clips | May 9, 2022

Biden’s Power to Set Contractor Wage Hikes Arises in Texas Court

Via: Bloomberg Law

The Biden administration has the authority to increase wages for federal contractors, which will mean greater income and equality for(…)

News Releases | May 4, 2022

Statement in response to the passage of an $18 minimum wage by 2028 in Hawaii

Lawmakers in Hawaii approved a bill that would raise the state minimum wage to $18 by January 2028,

News Releases | March 1, 2022

State of the Union: It’s Time to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage

Congress cannot just pay lip service to frontline workers whose labor they take for granted.

News Releases | December 20, 2021

Record Number of Cities, States Will Increase Minimum Wages in 2022 

­21 states and 35 cities and counties will raise their wage floors in the New Year.

Press Clips | November 15, 2021

Beating the ‘great resignation’ at a family business in Boise

Via: Deseret News

Amid an uneven economic recovery and the lingering pandemic, many workers have proven reluctant to go back to their jobs,(…)

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