Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Legal Services: Our advocates build trust and cultivate connections amoung vulnerable workers and their communities. We educate over 5,000 agricultural workers and workers in low-wage industries each yeaer on their legal rights and empower them in exercising those rights. We focus on marginalized communities that otherwise lack meaningful access to essential services and legal resources. We provide access to justice for exploited and abused workers, hold bad actoers accountable for their actions, adn engage in strategic litigation to advance workers' rights. Serviceing an average of 1,500 client annually, we focus on wage and hour violations, illegal discrimination and retaliation claims, sexual harassment, workplace health and safety hazards, civil human trafficking litigation, migrant and seasonal agricultural worker protections, violations of guest worker program regulations, farmworker housing issues, and immigration remedies for exploited and abused workers. This program is primarily supported by contributions.

Survivor Services for Human Trafficking and Domestic & Sexual Violence: We work side-by-side with survivors of human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence to achieve safety and self-determination. We focus on providing trauma-informed services that are client centered from start to finish, ensuring access to culturally and linguistically appropriate support services and high-quality legal assistance. We investigate and interrupt human trafficking schemes, while working to transform the culture of the anti-trafficking field by leading victim-centered training programs for service providers and law enforcement. Our human trafficking specialists work closely with law enforcement and our legal team to hold perpetrators accountable and with our survivor services teams to support trafficking survivors on their path to self-determiniation. This program is primarily supported by contributions.