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