Advocating for policies and programs that uplift workers’ rights, prevent wage theft and workplace abuses, and support workers’ voices.
Some low-road corporations not only pay low wages and cut hours, but deliberately break the law to push down costs. Wage theft comes in many forms: paying less than the minimum wage, making people work off the clock, not paying overtime, misclassifying employees as independent contractors, the list goes on.
Wage theft comes in many forms: paying less than the minimum wage, making people work off the clock, not paying overtime, misclassifying employees as independent contractors, the list goes on.
Wage theft costs the average low-wage worker in the US over $2,600 each year, or 15% of their earnings.
We drove a groundbreaking coordinated campaign to raise the minimum wage in 8 Silicon Valley cities, ensuring 219,000 working people are paid a bit more to help meet rising rents. And together with labor and community partners, we won the first-in-the-nation Opportunity to Work ordinance that provides people with part-time jobs a pathway to the work hours they need to put food on the table for their families. When COVID-19 hit, we worked to make San José the first city in California to provide emergency paid sick leave for all workers.
Today, we are building on these victories by advocating for policies and programs that uplift workers’ rights, prevent wage theft and workplace abuses, and support workers’ voices.
Fair Workplace Collaborative
On the ground, the Fair Workplace Collaborative (FWC) educates and empowers workers to stand up for their rights, reaching over xxx workers and xx small businesses in 2022. Read more about the FWC here.
