National Employment Law Project
New York, NY
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a non-profit research and advocacy organization that partners with local communities to deliver on our nation's promise of economic opportunity.With a staff of lawyers, social scientists, and policy experts, we develop new solutions to the growing economic insecurity of working families. Our approach is to work in close partnership with grassroots organizing groups and reformers to test new models in the states and then translate them to the federal level, in order to respond to the key problems of the U.S. labor market in the twenty-first century. Our work includes:
- Supporting strategies to raise minimum wage and labor standards at the federal, state, and local levels, with a particular focus on eliminating loopholes that exclude immigrants, people of color, and contingent and temporary workers from these protections;
- Developing new strategies to improve the enforcement of basic workplace rights to combat the growing number of low-wage workers who are not paid the minimum wage or overtime, endure unsafe workplaces, and face retaliation when trying to organize;
- Working with policymakers and community coalitions to develop new strategies for making economic development accountable to community needs, promoting higher standards for its delivery of living wage jobs, quality training, career ladders, affordable housing, and environmental sustainability.
The Peggy Browning Fund Summer Fellow will assist NELP attorneys in all aspects of their work. The Fellow will perform legal research and writing in support of policy advocacy, litigation and community education, and will assist in drafting manuals and articles for publications. The Fellow may also work with NELP's National Wage & Hour Clearinghouse, a growing movement of unions, community groups, worker centers, legal services, plaintiff's attorneys and public agencies working to make headway against wage theft and the erosion of the minimum wage floor and right to overtime pay.
The total ten-week stipend for this fellowship will be $4,500.
NELP is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, the disabled, lesbians and gay men, and people of transgendered experience are encouraged to apply.
Address cover letter to: internship@nelp.org
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