Justice for Workers at Hanford
The settlement in this case shows the power of workers banding together and the effectiveness and importance of partnerships between unions, advocates and tenacious public servants like Washington’s Attorney General.
Practice Area ; Workers' Rights
Public Justice Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Review ‘New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira’
Today, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the First Circuit’s decision in ‘New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira.’ We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case both because we are hopeful the Court will see that the First Circuit correctly decided the case, but also because we believe the truck drivers who work for New Prime have been denied crucial rights under the wage and hour laws.
Divide and Conquer: Employers’ Attempts to Prohibit Joint Legal Action Will be Tested at Supreme Court
On Monday, October 2, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most consequential labor law cases to come to the Court in a generation, which could fundamentally alter the balance of power between millions of American workers and the people who employ them. So why are so few people paying attention?
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Case Regarding U.S. Census Bureau Criminal Background Checks Wins Public Justice’s 2017 Trial Lawyer of the Year
After six years, the legal team secured a groundbreaking settlement that requires the Census Bureau to use a fair method to determine whether the criminal history of an applicant actually justifies his or her rejection from entry-level, temporary jobs.
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Trial Lawyer of the Year Award Finalists Show Why Access to the Courts and Class Actions are So Important
This year’s finalists for Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year Award highlight the kinds of cases, individual and class action, filed and litigated in state and federal courts every day. They show why access to the courts and class actions are so important. And they show why some government officials and corporate wrongdoers are so eager to bar access to the courts and hamstring or ban class actions.
Victory Over DirecTV: Court Unseals Records Showing Plot to Cheat Low Wage Workers
We just blew open sealed court records in a Washington federal court case involving DirecTV, the national cable provider that has become a poster child for consumer ripoffs and worker abuse. Public Justice had asked the court to unseal the records and expose the full evidence of DirecTV’s wrongdoing to the light of day.
How Did DirecTV Plot to Cheat Low-Wage Workers? We Want to Know.
Companies, like DirecTV, that outsource labor try to avoid responsibility by saying “hey—those weren’t our workers, so it’s not our fault they were underpaid” – even though, in reality, the companies effectively control the subcontractors’ operations and profit from their workers’ (underpaid) labor.
March 6, 2017
In Blog Civil Rights & Liberties, Class Action Preservation, Consumers' Rights, Workers' Rights
Tell Your Representative to Vote No on Closing the Courthouse Doors
By Paul Bland Executive Director Lawmakers in Congress are about to vote on a bill that would seriously jeopardize Americans’ right to their day in court. We need your help to stop this dangerous legislation which will make it easier for corporations to break the…
Will Workers’ Class Actions Survive or Be Gone?
While everyone waits to see how the election changes the Supreme Court, one thing is clear: workers’ rights hang in the balance. The Court is soon going to have to decide whether employers can use mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts to ban—and eliminate—workers’ collective and class actions.
Hillary Clinton Calls for an End to Forced Arbitration Clauses
In a speech in Toledo, Ohio, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for an end to forced arbitration clauses that are increasingly used by corporations to keep consumers, and workers, out of court.
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