By Josh Eidelson Bloomberg News Hospitals are leaning harder than ever on underpaid contract staffers, many from the Philippines. The ones who are suing could change that. (Read the full article) A couple of years ago, Novie Dale Carmen paid $20,000 to quit her nursing job. She was less than halfway to fulfilling the three-year commitment she’d … Continued
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2022 CONTACT: Paul Westrick, 303-941-2314 Workers Advocate for Legislation for Safer and Healthier Workplaces Bill to give Colorado workers the ability to raise concerns about workplace health and safety practices without fear of retaliation DENVER, CO –Senators Pettersen and Rodriguez and Representatives Herod and Sullivan will be joined by … Continued
Tuesday, January 25th from 6-7pm. Registration link below. This event is free and open to the public but you must register to attend. Para registrarse, por favor haga clic en uno de los vínculos debajo. Towards Justice es un bufete de abogados sin fines de lucro que representa a los trabajadores en casos y otras … Continued
On Friday, three former employees of Blush & Blu, one of the few remaining lesbian bars in the country, filed a lawsuit against the prominent Denver bar. The workers allege that Blush & Blu and its owner Jody Bouffard discriminated against one of the bar’s only Black workers, habitually failed to pay its employees minimum wage, and, at times, … Continued
We’re proud to stand with Public Justice, Berger Montague, and Food & Water Watch to hold Smithfield accountable for putting profit over people and lying to the public about meat shortages. Here’s a short clip with Public Justice’s Ellen Noble, explaining the situation.
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BY JASMINE AGUILERA for TIME LINK TO FULL ARTICLE NOVEMBER 11, 2021 3:12 PM EST For years, thousands of detainees awaiting their trials in immigration court were paid $1 a day to mop, scrub toilets, do laundry, and myriad other jobs at the Washington state facility where they were being held. During that time, GEO Group, … Continued
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Tuesday, November 09, 2021 to Thursday, November 11, 2021 Towards Justice Attorney Valerie Collins will be presenting at 3pm MST on November 9. Legislative Advocacy: Moving Beyond Direct Client Services To register for this event, visit: https://www.nlada.org/2021NFLC
Towards Justice Attorney Nina DiSalvo will be a panelist on November 16, 2021 from 6pm-7pm This is a virtual event and is open to the public. https://denvergov-org.zoom.us/j/91622230840
Towards Justice Attorney Valerie Collins will be presenting at this event on Saturday, November 13. Revisiting the Scope of “Protected” Activity In the recent past the nature of work has dramatically changed – both with respect to working conditions, e.g., working from home, as well as regarding the scope of issues that employees believe impact … Continued
DENVER, October 5, 2021 – On Friday, October 1, 2021, former Amazon Colorado warehouse worker Jennfier Vincenzetti filed a class action complaint in federal court in Denver. The complaint alleges that Amazon failed to pay its thousands of warehouse workers in Colorado for time Amazon required them to be onsite, on duty, but off the … Continued
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Towards Justice regularly engages with the community, workers, and regulators to advance, expand and clarify worker protections. Just this week, Towards Justice provided comments describing ways that our state’s wage and hour law could be clarified through regulation. In particular, Towards Justice encouraged the CDLE to revise wage and hour law to ensure that all … Continued
This summer, Governor Jared Polis signed the Agricultural Workers’ Rights Bill, which extends workplace protections to agricultural workers that have long applied to other industries such as a minimum wage guarantee, the right to organize, meal and rest breaks, and enhanced safety protections during public health emergencies. This was a major victory, but the fight … Continued
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