December 2023 — Since NLAN’s founding in 2019, we have partnered with dozens of membership-based organizations, worked with hundreds of organizers and lawyers, and engaged thousands of workers in low-wage industries. Through our work, we have won policy changes that impact hundreds of thousands of workers and put millions of dollars back into the hands of workers, their communities, and their organizations. Check out our Impact Report to learn more about what we’ve accomplished.
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DECEMBER 12, 2023 — National Legal Advocacy Network and our partners at Unemployed Workers United and Action Center for Race and the Economy just released a new report, Untangling Discrimination: How Temporary Staffing Agencies Rely on a Racist Business Model to Discriminate Against Black & Female Workers in Houston and Nashville. This report exposes the racist and misogynist underpinnings of America’s temporary staffing industry, its ongoing impact on race and gender equity in America’s workplaces, and the role public money and private equity firms play in proliferating the temporary staffing business model. Utilizing rigorous match-paired testing conducted by the Equal Rights Center, our report highlights race and gender-based hiring discrimination and occupational segregation between Black and Latinx workers in Houston, TX and Nashville, TN.
Read More2021 — This issue brief outlines the necessity for fee-sharing arrangements for nonprofit organizations, how fee-sharing arrangements work & comply with rules of professional conduct and the advantages of fee-sharing arrangements for nonprofit organizations and attorneys. It was prepared for NLAN by Tram Ha and BK Katzmann, law students in the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic at Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Read MoreMAY 2022 — Read the report from Equal Rights Center’s matched paired testing conduced at Chipotle Mexican Grill, suggesting that hiring practices disproportionately deny management opportunities to qualified Black applicants. The testing project was done at the request of Fast Food Union, organizing with Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union. Read more on the Daily Beast & VICE.
Read MoreFEBRUARY 23, 2021 — Opening The Door contains statistically-significant findings from a first of-its-kind study designed by the Equal Rights Center to measure the prevalence of race-based hiring discrimination and job channeling amongst Black and Latinx workers in the Chicago area’s industrial temp staffing sector.
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