Denver, CO — Towards Justice is awarding two leaders with its 2023 Wage Justice Champion recognition: Kathy White, Executive Director of the Colorado Fiscal Institute and Laura Wolf, Partner at Spark Justice Law and is announcing a new partnership with Centro Humanitario ahead of its annual “Just Wages” event on October 19. For decades, Kathy … Continued
Yesterday, Towards Justice; Nichols Kaster, PLLP; and Donati Law, PLLC filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against SpecialtyCare on behalf of its surgical neurophysiologists for the company’s use of unfair Training Repayment Agreement Provisions, also known as TRAPs. SpecialtyCare requires new surgical neurophysiologists to sign … Continued
On Monday, TWU Local 556, a union of Colorado-based flight attendants, represented by Towards Justice and Milstein Turner PLLC, filed suit against Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment in state court, arguing that the administration granted an illegal backroom exemption from paid sick leave laws to Southwest Airlines through a … Continued
Denver, Colorado – Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a critical report following a yearlong investigation into employer-driven debt, which has proliferated across the labor market as employers seek to use debt and credit products to keep workers trapped in their jobs and shift business costs onto workers. The Bureau’s report highlights … Continued
ICYMI: Towards Justice Calls on White House, Releases Explainer Video Tackling Worker Surveillance Denver, Colorado – Worker surveillance has become one of the most pressing issues facing workers today, as corporations exploit technological advances to vastly expand their surveillance and control over workers. Earlier this month, Towards Justice called on the White House to create … Continued
Denver, Colorado – On Wednesday, Towards Justice called on the White House to create a coordinated response to corporate surveillance and automated manipulation of workers across the country. Towards Justice’s comments highlight several of its cases challenging such abuses. This includes litigation against Amazon under wage and hour and discrimination laws related to its use of workplace surveillance and … Continued
By Ordering Dispute Resolved Through Arbitration, Federal Judge Says PetSmart Can Use Coercive Fine Print to Avoid Accountability for TRAP Denver, Colorado — Today, BreAnn Scally, a former PetSmart groomer who brought a high-profile class action lawsuit against the giant pet retailer for using illegal training repayment agreement provisions (TRAPs), filed for leave to appeal … Continued
Three Amazon delivery drivers in Colorado file a class action suit against Amazon for its failure to provide adequate bathroom breaks, demanding policy changes DENVER, COLO. – Yesterday, three Amazon delivery drivers filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the e-commerce giant alleging Amazon delivery drivers across Colorado are denied reasonable access to the bathroom, … Continued
Workers Build Power in Face of City Council Vote Fort Collins, CO: Tuesday night, after hearing from a broad coalition of workers and workers’ rights organizations, the Fort Collins City Council voted 3-4 against adopting a local minimum wage that would have moderately increased wages for the City’s lowest paid workers. Before voting “no,” many City … Continued
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Seligman Denver – The Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA), Colorado’s largest specialty bar association, awarded Towards Justice with its annual Consumer Protection Award last week, recognizing the organization’s important advocacy helping people and communities fight abuses of corporate power. Our clients and the communities that we serve don’t care if … Continued
Proposed Class Action Filed by Former Immigrant Employees Against Pro-Health, LLC Alleging Violations of the WARN Act for Alleged Mass Layoff to Replace Them with Cheaper Visa Guest Workers For Immediate Release April 18, 2023 Denver, Colorado — Last week, a group of former employees of Pro-Health, a produce processing plant in northeastern Colorado, filed a … Continued
New Lawsuit: Tech Training Bootcamp Smoothstack Engineered Modern-Day Indentured Servitude, Using TRAPs to Let Public Companies Like Accenture, Verizon, and CapitalOne Exploit IT Workers April 14, 2023 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, a former employee filed a class-action lawsuit against a tech-training and employee-staffing agency, Smoothstack, Inc. (Smoothstack). This new lawsuit alleges that Smoothstack … Continued