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
Join us in Fort Collins on September 10 from Noon – 4pm Fort Collins Senior Center 1200 Raintree Drive, Fort Collins (1) Attorney Nina DeSalvo of Towards Justice on Workplace Rights, Wage Theft, and other support for those experiencing workplace abuses; she and her colleague Renee will stay on during the resource fair to field intakes … Continued
Happy Labor Day from all of us here at Towards Justice. Today we celebrate our accomplishments alongside workers, while acknowledging workers’ ongoing fight to build power and level the playing field. We face persistent structural inequities that disproportionately disadvantage people of color, threaten our planet, and strip us of our most fundamental rights. But Labor … 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
Last week, the federal district court in the Southern District of Ohio ruled that claims against Health Carousel LLC for trafficking, racketeering, and minimum wage violations, filed jointly by Towards Justice, Nichols Kaster, Donati Law PLLC, Gupta Wessler, and Barkan Meizlish, LLP could proceed. The case is brought on behalf of migrant nurses and physical … 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
Come join us on September 18, 2023 for a free Wage Theft training CLE organized by the Access to Justice Task Force. The event is being held in partnership with the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. Location: 1290 Broadway Suite 1700, Denver, CO 80203. Time: 11am – 12:30pm Please RSVP for the event HERE.
This month, we’re very excited to introduce a Spanish translation of our newsletter for the first time! Scroll down to see the Spanish version. We’ll be including translations in our newsletters going forward. Enjoy! ¡Este mes, estamos muy emocionados de presentar una versión en español de nuestro boletín mensual por primera vez! Baja para ver la versión en … 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
Top News We’ve been busy supporting workers across the country to challenge stay-or-pay contracts that keep workers trapped in their jobs, workplace surveillance and automated management of workers, and the scourge of forced labor. Last month, we brought a new lawsuit against tech bootcamp Smoothstack for locking our client into illegal TRAPs. A type of … 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