EJC Celebrates Winning Year
Friday, February 7, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)With plenty of work to be
done in the year ahead, DC Employment Justice
Center (EJC) Executive Director
Barbra Kavanaugh recently took a moment to look
back at the organization’s
accomplishments in 2013. “The EJC and its pro
bono attorney partners received
$744,591.12 in awards and settlements on behalf
of low-income workers,” said
Kavanaugh, noting that over 1400 clients, 200
more than in 2012, “were assisted
at our free, walk-in Workers’ Rights Clinics
in NW and SE DC by the volunteer
intake workers and advising attorneys.”
Legislative wins included passage of
the “Paid Sick Days for All” bill, the
successfull push for minimum wage
increases in DC, Montgomery County, and Prince
George’s County, inclusion of
the Wage Theft Prevention Act in the DC City
Council budget, and pressuring the
District government to apply its living wage
law to home health care aides as
well as other workers on DC government
contracts, winning “between $13-20
million for these workers in potential back pay
for 2013 and raises worth even
more in future years.” Click here to read
Kavanaugh’s complete report. photo: EJC
staff and worker activists on
Learning Journeys trip to El Salvador