Justice at Work

The organization serves its mission by supporting low wage immigrant workers by providing legal needs to immigrant worker centers. The agency provides a mixture of employment and labor related legal support by training, educating, referrals and representation, in order to address issues in relation to wage theft, unsafe conditions, discrimination, harassment and illegal retaliation. The agency partners directly with worker centers, community based nonprofits that support workers in lowpaying jobs and provide training and connections to professional services such as attorneys. The agency earns attorney fees for legal services provided to client. The agency also earns cocounsel attorney fees when cases are cocounseled with other private attorneys, the fees are split through a lodestar approach under a contingency fee agreement. The agency earns referral fees by recommending or sending clients to third party attorneys.