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Workplace Justice

NIWR and LatinoJustice PRLDEF Oppose Charter-Cox Merger Over Equal Opportunity Concerns

March 17, 2026
By NIWR

On March 12, 2026, NIWR and LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a joint comment with the New York Public Service Commission opposing the proposed merger between the telecom companies Charter Communications and Cox […]

Blog Post, Workplace Justice DEI, feature two, 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

Institute in Balls and Strikes: How the Supreme Court Made It Harder For E. Jean Carroll to Hold Donald Trump Accountable

February 22, 2024
By NIWR

Last month, a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83 million to longtime magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll to compensate her for the harm he caused by lying […]

Blog Post, News, Workplace Justice

Enhancing Anti-Discrimination Laws in Education and Employment

October 11, 2023
By NIWR Blog

The print issue of our 2021 symposium on anti-discrimination law is out! The National Institute for Workers’ Rights joined with the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the […]

Blog Post, Economic Dignity, Future of Worker Advocacy, Issues, News, Publication, Symposia, Workplace Justice ADA, Discrimination, EEOC, Faragher, Harassment, Higher Ed, homepage, Symposia, Title IX, Title VII

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