August 12, 2024
The grant will support WorkLife Law’s efforts to help pregnant and postpartum farmworkers assert their legal rights and avoid health risks while pregnant. The Center for WorkLife Law has received a $150,000 grant to support a program that helps pregnant farmworkers and those who have…
August 5, 2024
WorkLife Law Co-Director Jessica Lee and WLL Board Member Tina Sherman celebrate the 60th anniversary of Title VII at a White House event July 29. The law remains an essential tool used by the center to protect workers’ rights. Acknowledging its efforts to defend workers’ rights, UC Law…
April 1, 2024
Twenty-five years after co-founding a center that has advanced the rights of millions of workers and students, Sullivan Professor Joan C. Williams is launching a new center to expand on and grow off the work of the still vibrant Center for WorkLife Law. Joan Williams,…
February 20, 2023
Research and advocacy by the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Law SF helped inform recent legislation that expands protections for pregnant and breastfeeding workers. After advocating for the rights of pregnant and nursing workers and students for more than two decades, the Center for…
June 11, 2020
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that expands protections for family caregivers from discrimination by their employers, consulting with and drawing heavily on research from the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Law SF that shows that caregivers have long faced discrimination in the workplace, which data confirm…