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The Employment Justice Center secures and enforces the rights of low-income workers in
the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, reducing poverty by using the law as a tool to
promote secure, dignified employment. Through weekly Workers' Rights Clinics, a network
of volunteer attorneys, law students and worker advocates, and a cadre of work rights
educators, the EJC has counseled and represented more than 1200 workers each of the
last two years. The EJC employs legal services, advocacy, education and organizing
as tools to achieve our goal of promotion of secure and dignified employment for
low-income workers. The EJC has specific programs targeting injured workers,
criminal records as a barrier to employment, and its Program on Women's
Employment Rights which focuses on the unique issues facing low-income working women
including domestic
violence and family and medical leave access.
The Peggy Browning Fund intern will work on all aspects of the Center's work, including individual case work, advocacy projects and educational presentations. Moreover, because law students can represent clients in many employment law cases, including wage-hour, unemployment compensation and workers' compensation, the intern will likely manage at least one case from beginning to end during the summer. Additionally, the intern will support EJC's attorneys in their cases. These cases will run the gamut of employment law: wage and hour violations, unsafe conditions in welfare to work placements, sexual harassment, criminal records as a barrier to employment, work and family conflicts, on the job injuries, and discrimination. The Peggy Browning Fund intern will research legal issues, draft pleadings, conduct fact investigations by interviewing potential clients and witnesses, and move cases along. The Peggy Browning Fund intern will be directly supervised by one of the staff attorneys and will receive one week of orientation and training Students interested in applying to the D.C. Employment Justice Center for a Peggy Browning Fund internship should submit an application package to:
Robin R. Runge, Esq.
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