A judge recently handed 24-hour home care aides a victory, and a City Council member is reviving his push to ban 24-hour shifts altogether. But the workers’ struggles are far from over. This article was originally published in…
Read More →Decision grants class certification, clearing the way for home healthcare workers to pursue unpaid wages (NEW YORK, NY) — The Legal Aid Society and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice secured a court order on January 2, 2026, reopening hundreds of…
Read More →Decision grants class certification, clearing the way for home healthcare workers to pursue unpaid wages (NEW YORK, NY) — The Legal Aid Society and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice secured a court order on January…
Read More →The National Center for Law and Economic Justice has submitted our comments to the US Department of Labor over their proposed rule to rescind the 2013 Home Care Final Rule extending FLSA protections to domestic workers, which would…
Read More →This article was originally published in Workers World Today. Read it here. The National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) announced its settlement in a case against Applebee’s. The case involved a violation of the National Labor…
Read More →This article was originally published in AMNY. Read it here. Over 100 restaurants in New York City have joined the “Solidarity Restaurants” coalition launched Friday by One Fair Wage and Presente, seeking to protect restaurant workers from Immigration…
Read More →This article was originally published in Law360. Read it here. Despite a growing body of case law laying out a blueprint for determining whether incarcerated workers are employees — which would legally entitle them to minimum wage and…
Read More →This article was originally published in Medium. Read it here. A group of 14 home care aides has filed a lawsuit against their former employer and the organizations that managed their patients’ health care plans. The workers, who are Chinese…
Read More →FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2024 Contacts: New York, NY – The National Center for Law and Economic Justice and Getman, Sweeney & Dunn, PLLC have filed a lawsuit against GreatCare Inc. (a homecare agency), CenterLight Health System,…
Read More →This article was originally published in Spectrum Local News. Read it here. ALBANY — Close to 100 home care workers protested outside the state Supreme Court on Tuesday before oral arguments were delivered in a lawsuit that alleges…
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