Home Newsroom Newsroom Featured News Blog New data show warehouse injuries in New York skyrocketing as jobs in the sector continue to grow News Release Minimum Wage Increases and Worker Protections Coming in 2025 as Worker Momentum Builds News Release Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Secretary Nomination Highlights Tension Between Pro-Worker Promises and Trump’s Project 2025 Anti-Labor Policies Blog As a Delivery Worker Union Campaign Takes Off, Amazon Tries to Dodge Labor Law Search Filters Topic Type Series Date News Release April Jobs Report: As Job Growth Slows, Unemployment Insurance is Critical for Children and Families A strong unemployment insurance system is essential to prevent job loss from pushing families into deeper economic hardship. May 3, 2024 Blog Gov. Newsom’s Wrong Decision to Carve Out Incarcerated Workers from Heat Standards California’s exemption of incarcerated workers from new workplace heat protections continues a pattern of cruel exclusions built on a foundation of slavery. April 24, 2024 Blog Q&A with Rebecca Dixon on Her Vision for a Good-Jobs Economy In our conversation, Rebecca shares her journey from Mississippi to the forefront of advocacy. April 23, 2024 News Release NELP Commends DOL’s Final Rule to Expand Overtime Eligibility NELP commends the USDOL for its final rule to strengthen and expand overtime protections for more workers across the country. April 23, 2024 Blog People with Records Have Fought Hard to “Ban the Box” Today, 37 states and nearly 200 cities and counties across the country have adopted some form of fair chance policy. April 23, 2024 Press Clips On the FTC’s Non-Compete Contracts Rule The National Employment Law Project (NELP) applauds the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-compete contracts for virtually all workers. April 23, 2024 News Release On the Supreme Court’s Decision in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries—a Win for Delivery Drivers Today’s unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries upholds delivery workers’ rights to seek unpaid wages in court. April 12, 2024 News Release March Jobs Report: Ten Percent of Workers Are Self-Employed, But Millions May Be Misclassified The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.8% in March, while the economy added 303,000 jobs. April 5, 2024 News Release On OSHA’s Updated Worker Walkaround Rule Many workers will now have the benefit of third-party representation during worksite walkaround inspections. March 29, 2024 News Release On Minneapolis’s New Minimum Pay Standard for Uber and Lyft Drivers We applaud the Minneapolis City Council for passing a minimum pay standard for app-based ride-hail drivers. March 15, 2024
Blog New data show warehouse injuries in New York skyrocketing as jobs in the sector continue to grow
News Release Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Secretary Nomination Highlights Tension Between Pro-Worker Promises and Trump’s Project 2025 Anti-Labor Policies
News Release April Jobs Report: As Job Growth Slows, Unemployment Insurance is Critical for Children and Families A strong unemployment insurance system is essential to prevent job loss from pushing families into deeper economic hardship. May 3, 2024
Blog Gov. Newsom’s Wrong Decision to Carve Out Incarcerated Workers from Heat Standards California’s exemption of incarcerated workers from new workplace heat protections continues a pattern of cruel exclusions built on a foundation of slavery. April 24, 2024
Blog Q&A with Rebecca Dixon on Her Vision for a Good-Jobs Economy In our conversation, Rebecca shares her journey from Mississippi to the forefront of advocacy. April 23, 2024
News Release NELP Commends DOL’s Final Rule to Expand Overtime Eligibility NELP commends the USDOL for its final rule to strengthen and expand overtime protections for more workers across the country. April 23, 2024
Blog People with Records Have Fought Hard to “Ban the Box” Today, 37 states and nearly 200 cities and counties across the country have adopted some form of fair chance policy. April 23, 2024
Press Clips On the FTC’s Non-Compete Contracts Rule The National Employment Law Project (NELP) applauds the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-compete contracts for virtually all workers. April 23, 2024
News Release On the Supreme Court’s Decision in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries—a Win for Delivery Drivers Today’s unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries upholds delivery workers’ rights to seek unpaid wages in court. April 12, 2024
News Release March Jobs Report: Ten Percent of Workers Are Self-Employed, But Millions May Be Misclassified The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.8% in March, while the economy added 303,000 jobs. April 5, 2024
News Release On OSHA’s Updated Worker Walkaround Rule Many workers will now have the benefit of third-party representation during worksite walkaround inspections. March 29, 2024
News Release On Minneapolis’s New Minimum Pay Standard for Uber and Lyft Drivers We applaud the Minneapolis City Council for passing a minimum pay standard for app-based ride-hail drivers. March 15, 2024
