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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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Right to Talk to Co-Workers and Management About Working Conditions: A Study of Enforcement at the NLRB

April 2, 2024

By NIWR

Executive Summary Download Executive Summary Both union and non-union employees have the right under federal law to engage in discussions with their colleagues about their terms and conditions of employment, […]

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 […]

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