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Attorney. Director, Fair Employment Project @feplaw.bsky.social. Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University School of Law.
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Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know - National Employment Law Project
What federal workers and contractors need to know to help support themselves during the government shutdown.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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EEOC backs away from disparate impact theory in hiring algorithm case newenglandbizlawupdate.com/2025/10/08/e...
EEOC backs away from disparate impact theory in hiring algorithm case
The EEOC has withdrawn a key allegation in a lawsuit claiming that a company’s AI-based hiring tool caused disparate impact discrimination against older job applicants.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Support workers this Labor Day by donating to the Fair Employment Project!
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Fair Employment Project
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August 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Federal job seekers quizzed on Executive Orders and how they would support them www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
Federal Job Applications Will Soon Have Essay Questions About Trump’s Executive Orders And Government Efficiency
A set of new essay questions will be added to federal job applications as part of an executive order from the president that seeks to reform the federal hiring process.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Workers' Rights Webinar: Domestic Workers, June 16, 5:30-7
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Workers' Rights Webinar: Domestic Workers
This webinar will review the rights of Domestic Workers, and how to file complaints and get support should your rights be violated. Domestic workers provide services in a home. These services include ...
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June 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Trump Administration Tells State Regulators It Won’t Back Some Discrimination Claims www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
Trump Administration Tells State Regulators It Won’t Back Some Discrimination Claims
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May 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed

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A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed
About 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps members lost their positions in April, gutting some health clinics, food pantries and other human service organizations.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.

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White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
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May 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Adverse Actions in the Wake of Muldrow v. City of St. Louis
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Adverse Actions in the Wake of <EM>Muldrow v. City of St. Louis</EM>
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May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement
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May 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
V.A. Mental Health Care Staff, Crowded into Federal Buildings, Raise Patient Privacy Alarms www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...
Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowded Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where sensitive conversations can be overheard.
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May 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs
A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign aid and health research.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Judges Worry Trump Could Tell U.S. Marshals to Stop Protecting Them www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Judges Worry Trump Could Tell U.S. Marshals to Stop Protecting Them
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April 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
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April 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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National Law Day of Action May 1: For bar associations, lawyers, the public
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National Law Day of Action
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April 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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City of Boston: Youth Workers' Rights webinar April 24 from 5:30 - 7:00
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Workers' Rights Webinar: Youth Workers
Having a job as a young person can have many benefits, but it can come with risks too. From 2022 to 2023, child labor violations in the US reached their highest level in about two decades. Recent stud...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Federal workers flock to unions www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/08/n...
‘People are signing up in droves’: Federal workers' unions see DOGE-inspired surge - The Boston Globe
As President Trump and Elon Musk move to upend the government, labor unions that represent federal workers have seen their membership rolls rapidly expand.
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February 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Students: Apply by February 7 for the UC Berkeley Labor Summer paid internship! Details and application: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/labor-summer...
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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MA Gov. Issues Formal Policy Prohibiting Non-Disclosure Agreements Across Executive Branch www.mass.gov/news/governo...
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January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The firm of Rudolph Friedmann LLP has just directed a cy pres award (unclaimed moneys from class action settlements) to the Fair Employment Project! Thank you to Adam Shafran, partner at Rudolph Friedman, who represented the plaintiffs
January 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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City of Boston is hosting Workers' Rights Webinar for Uber and Lyft Workers 1/13 from 10:30-12:00 www.boston.gov/departments/...
Labor Compliance and Worker Protections
The Office of Labor Compliance and Worker Protections: Protects and promotes labor standards and policies that create fair workplaces for all workers. Uses the power and scale of the City of Boston's ...
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January 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Workers' Rights Training: Health and Safety (In Spanish) Jan 11 in Boston
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Labor Compliance and Worker Protections
The Office of Labor Compliance and Worker Protections: Protects and promotes labor standards and policies that create fair workplaces for all workers. Uses the power and scale of the City of Boston's ...
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January 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Workers' Rights Clinic in Boston Jan 14
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Labor Compliance and Worker Protections
The Office of Labor Compliance and Worker Protections: Protects and promotes labor standards and policies that create fair workplaces for all workers. Uses the power and scale of the City of Boston's ...
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January 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Today, Jan 6, 4-6 p.m.: Wage theft clinic at Suffolk Law School in Boston
January 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The City of Boston is hosting webinars on workplace rights www.boston.gov/government/c...
Worker Empowerment
The Worker Empowerment Cabinet advances the well-being of Boston workers in the public and private sectors. Our goals include: setting the City’s future policy and vision for workers regulating, overs...
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January 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM