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Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. These 16.5 million ...

Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 www.epi.org/publication/...

Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

Thank you to Adam Shafran at the firm of Rudolph Friedmann LLP for directing another cy pres award to FEP! www.rflawyers.com/attorney-pro...
The award comes from settlement of an FLSA case for unpaid wages. www.fairemploymentproject.org/newsandevent...

Thank you to the firm of Ortiz & Moeslinger for directing another cy pres award to FEP! mass-legal.com
The award comes from the settlement of a case brought under Mass. law for failure to pay earned tips.
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US naval shipbuilders must face employees’ wage claims, judge rules Shipbuilding giants General Dynamics , Huntington Ingalls and others have failed to convince a U.S. judge to dismiss allegations that they conspired for years to suppress compensation for naval archit...

Class action can move forward accusing US naval shipbuilders of keeping wages low through a long-running agreement not to recruit each other’s employees. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Massachusetts has a new wage transparency law. www.mass.gov/info-details...

EEOC backs away from disparate impact theory in hiring algorithm case newenglandbizlawupdate.com/2025/10/08/e...

Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know - National Employment Law Project What federal workers and contractors need to know to help support themselves during the government shutdown.

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Support workers this Labor Day by donating to the Fair Employment Project!
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Volunteer Opportunity for Mass. Probate, Family, Estate and Immigration Law Practitioners: Immigration Community Response Initiative www.massbar.org/membership/v...

Workers' Rights Webinar: Domestic Workers This webinar will review the rights of Domestic Workers, and how to file complaints and get support should your rights be violated. Domestic workers provide services in a home. These services include ...

Workers' Rights Webinar: Domestic Workers, June 16, 5:30-7
www.boston.gov/calendar/wor...

Federal Job Applications Will Soon Have Essay Questions About Trump’s Executive Orders And Government Efficiency A set of new essay questions will be added to federal job applications as part of an executive order from the president that seeks to reform the federal hiring process.

Federal job seekers quizzed on Executive Orders and how they would support them www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

New ruling dials back EEOC protections for transgender employees newenglandbizlawupdate.com/2025/05/28/n...

Current Openings Take a look at the current openings at National Employment Law Project

The National Employment Law Project is hiring a Vice President of Programs and Strategy based in New York City, Washington, DC, or Berkeley, CA.

A full job description and application instructions can be found here: nelp.bamboohr.com/careers

Gavriela Bogin-Farber and Anna Bottrell on
Adverse Actions in the Wake of Muldrow v. City of St. Louis
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National Law Day of Action

National Law Day of Action May 1: For bar associations, lawyers, the public
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Workers' Rights Webinar: Youth Workers Having a job as a young person can have many benefits, but it can come with risks too. From 2022 to 2023, child labor violations in the US reached their highest level in about two decades. Recent stud...

City of Boston: Youth Workers' Rights webinar April 24 from 5:30 - 7:00
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NLRB Acting General Counsel Overturns Numerous Pro-Labor Biden-Era Policies www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/nl...

City of Boston is hosting a Workers’ Rights Clinic on Tues, Mar 11 from 5-7 at Josiah Quincy Upper School, 900 Washington St., Boston

‘People are signing up in droves’: Federal workers' unions see DOGE-inspired surge - The Boston Globe As President Trump and Elon Musk move to upend the government, labor unions that represent federal workers have seen their membership rolls rapidly expand.

Federal workers flock to unions www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/08/n...

The Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, a CUNY Institute is offering a Fellowship to be based in New York City, NY. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @cunyslu.bsky.social

16 million workers were unionized in 2024: Millions more want to join unions but couldn’t Interest in union organizing is surging in the United States. Since 2021, petitions for union elections at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have more than doubled. And public support for...

16 million workers were unionized in 2024: Millions more want to join unions but couldn’t www.epi.org/publication/...

In court just now, the states are introducing @PressSec tweet saying the funding freeze is still active as evidence that their lawsuit should continue.

The firm of Rudolph Friedmann LLP has just directed a cy pres award (unclaimed moneys from class action settlements) to the Fair Employment Project! Thank you to Adam Shafran, partner at Rudolph Friedman, who represented the plaintiffs

MA Gov. Issues Formal Policy Prohibiting Non-Disclosure Agreements Across Executive Branch www.mass.gov/news/governo...

Students: Apply by February 7 for the UC Berkeley Labor Summer paid internship! Details and application: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/labor-summer...

Mastercard Agrees to Settle Pay Discrimination Lawsuit Mastercard has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a class action accusing the company of underpaying female, Black and Hispanic employees.

Mastercard Agrees to Settle Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
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In a unanimous ruling penned by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, SCOTUS rejected a higher threshold for employers to prove that workers are exempt from overtime pay and other legal protections granted by US wage laws. This could make it easier for some businesses to defend against lawsuits reut.rs/4jk7hr8

US Supreme Court boosts companies' defense in wage lawsuits The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a higher threshhold for employers to prove that workers are exempt from overtime pay and other legal protections granted by U.S. wage laws.

US Supreme Court boosts companies' defense in wage lawsuits www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Labor Compliance and Worker Protections The Office of Labor Compliance and Worker Protections: Protects and promotes labor standards and policies that create fair workplaces for all workers. Uses the power and scale of the City of Boston's ...

Free Workers’ Rights Clinics in Boston. Next one is February 25, 5-7 p.m. at Brazilian Worker Center, 14 Harvard Ave., No. 2, Allston www.boston.gov/departments/...