On Job Loss and the Hedge-Fund Attack on AT&T

Statement from NELP Mourning Congressman Elijah Cummings

On the Labor Department’s Proposed Tip Rule

On Trump DOL’s Final Rule Allowing for Drug Testing for Unemployment Benefits

This rule represents a not-so-subtle attack on the character of unemployed Americans.

Round-up of NELP’s Legal Team’s Federal Fight Back Efforts – Summer 2019

This summer, our legal team has been very busy filing comments against US DOL’s worker attacks. After a relatively quiet 2018 at the United States Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division, in 2019 it proposed three anti-worker regulatory proposals in quick succession.

Trump’s Labor Dep’t Rolls Back Previous Obama Rule, Issues Wholly Inadequate Overtime Regulation

No one should be fooled by DOL's new overtime regulation, which covers far fewer workers than a 2016 rule.

The Hill: Risking Food Safety, USDA Plans to Let Slaughterhouses Self-Police

USDA’s Radical Changes to Slaughterhouse Food Safety Inspections Endanger Consumers and Workers

Exposing Wage Theft Without Fear Is Possible AND Necessary

To truly tackle the problem of wage theft in our current system, which almost always places on workers the burden and risk of coming forward to report violations, we have to simultaneously address the problem of retaliation. 

Progressive Coalition Calls for Bold Action to Empower Workers

New national report, The New Social Contract for Workers, calling on elected leaders to embrace a slate of new public policies to promote workplace democracy and human rights for America’s workers.