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Issues

Disparate Impact Civil Rights Claims: A Crucial Tool Under Attack

November 3, 2025
By Democracy Forward, NIWR, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Legal Defense Fund

Disparate impact claims have long helped dismantle unjust barriers to opportunity—ensuring fairer access to housing, education, and economic stability. But these vital civil rights protections are now under threat.

Economic Dignity, Fact Sheet Discrimination, Disparate Impact, featured

Fact Sheet: What is Concerted Activity?

August 7, 2025
By NIWR

Workers have the right to join together to improve their wages and working conditions, even without a union. This fact sheet, developed in partnership with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, […]

Economic Dignity, Fact Sheet, Publication concerted activities, fact sheet, featured, homepage

Louisiana Bill Risks Increasing Discrimination and Liability for the State, NIWR Warns

June 17, 2025
By NIWR

On May 19, 2025, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed H.B. 685, a bill that would prohibit state agencies and public higher education institutions from making any efforts to promote […]

Corporate Accountability, Economic Dignity, News DEI, Discrimination

Making Equal Opportunity Real: How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Combat Workplace Discrimination

May 20, 2025
By NIWR

In his inaugural address on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump declared, “We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.”[1] Subsequently, President Trump issued a series of executive […]

Economic Dignity, Policy Brief, Publication DEI, Discrimination, feature two

Protecting A Worker’s Right to Concerted Activity

April 8, 2025
By NIWR

Download Fact Sheet Both union and non-union employees have these rights under federal law: Some violations are obvious, like when an employer fires an outspoken union supporter. But violations in […]

Economic Dignity, Fact Sheet, Fact Sheet, Publication concerted activities, featured

Protect Working Families: Save the Overtime Rule

February 10, 2025
By NIWR

Fact Sheet The Biden Administration’s overtime expansion rule was set to increase the salary under which a worker is automatically entitled to overtime. The increase—from $35,568 to $58,656—grants a raise […]

Fact Sheet, Workplace Justice overtime

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