National Employment Law Project
Staff Attorney or Senior Staff Attorney, Work Quality
Remote | $72K - $184K
Responsibilities
- You may be based in any of NELP’s three office locations and will report to the Director of Work Quality
- You will work in conjunction with NELP’s staff of lawyers, policy experts, researchers, and strategic communications experts
- You will work with grassroots organizing groups and reformers to design, promote and ensure the successful implementation of laws that will respond to eroding labor standards, rising income and wealth inequality, persistent structural racism and occupational segregation, and the shifting of power away from workers and toward corporations
- Building opportunities for strategic engagement between worker-led organizations and federal, state, and local agencies to ensure consistent, community-based, and directed public enforcement of hard-won workplace protections so that the gains and protections of laws on the books are actually realized in workers’ lives
- Developing new strategies and support ongoing worker campaigns to improve enforcement of core workplace standards to combat the rise in workers who are not paid what they are owed, endure unsafe workplaces, or face retaliation when trying to organize or assert their basic rights
- Fighting back against the rollbacks of core labor and employment rights at the federal, state, and local levels, and eliminating loopholes that exclude immigrants, people of color, and other workers from core workplace protections
- Developing policies and providing campaign support to ongoing worker campaigns to raise labor standards at the federal, state and local levels
- Deepening our racial equity framework and approaches, through cross-team participation, analysis of policies, and partnerships with state and local partners
- Engaging in multi-faceted efforts leveraging legal and policy expertise, strategic communications, and an extensive network of stakeholders to ensure partners have legal, policy, and strategic support for campaigns across the country
- Leading local and state advocacy in key policy priority areas, as described above in the Work Quality portfolio, by engaging key constituencies, allied organizations, policymakers, and federal, state, and local agency staff
- Providing legal, policy, and strategic support to federal, state, and local partners and for campaigns across the country, including drafting model legislation, policy briefs, and legal analyses
- Drafting amicus briefs and supporting strategic litigation related to Work Quality issues described above
- Representing NELP in advocacy coalitions, public forums, legislative and agency hearings, and in the media
- Drafting reports, op-eds, blogs, and educational materials, and engaging in strategic communications
- Supporting a workplace culture where all team members grow and develop professionally
- Actively contributing to NELP’s work in becoming an anti-racist organization that reflects and embodies internally the values of dignity, justice, equity, and inclusion
- 11-50 employees
- Legal Services, Human Resources, Government Relations, Non-Profit Organization Management, Law Practice
- Nonprofit
- New York, NY
- Company Specialties:
employment law, wage and hour, unemployment insurance, workers' rights, Labor law, workplace health and safety, temporary work, minimum wage, fair chance hiring, ban the box, forced arbitration, and policy
Company information
Since our founding in 1969, the National Employment Law Project has fought to secure the rights of workers and unemployed people across the country. Learn more about NELP at www.nelp.org.
