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As of today, it’s been 327 days since we’ve last had measurable snow in NYC. This is the longest we’ve gone without snow ever. The average first snow day since 1970 is Dec 14. In the 30 years before that the average was Dec 7. This is a trend & it will likely get worse

NELP senior staff attorney NajahFarley discussed fair wages, wage theft, and retaliation in the latest episode of Workplace Fairness' podcast. bit.ly/3WBuEQv #TheWorkerExperience (1/2)

2/12 column: Training repayment agreements: protection for employer investments, or a new take on indentured servitude? Thanks to Rachel Dempsey with Towards Justice and Jonathan F. Harris for their insights. Post Business Washington Post Jobs wapo.st/40IY0Q9

A dog trainer has to pay $35k to leave their job, based on the employer’s training to train dogs to sniff out bedbugs & drugs. It’s a Training Repayment Agreement Provision (TRAP) for training the trainer. Is the dog also in debt?

How could this be? I thought the GOP is now a workers' party. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Join Us: Thursday we’ll here from workers, business owners, investors and more about how noncompetes affect them. ftc.gov/news-events/ev…

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re… divided US Court of Appeals for the 9th Cir panel ruled Federal Arbitration Act preempts Assembly Bill 51, a 2019 measure that prohibited employers from requiring job applicants or wkrs to sign arbitration pacts.

Stacy Dean USDA Nutrition makes the key point that SNAP is carrying the weight of bigger societal issues -- trying to fill in for gaps caused by underpaid jobs, lack of child care, cost of housing, end of CTC.

This is big, big, big! Great work Seattle Office of Labor Standards and WHD_DOL! Let us know how we at Seattle U Law School Workers' Rights Clinic help. Also, cute pics.

At today’s FTC public forum on its proposed rule to prohibit employers from using noncompetes, NajahFarley, NELP senior staff attorney, expressed NELP’s support for the proposed rule. (1/2)

.NajahFarley said, “NELP supports the proposed rule b/c it’ll ensure that noncompetes will no longer degrade wages & working conditions by eliminating the most effective means workers have to improve their job quality—changing jobs…or moving to better working conditions.” (2/2)

In my first piece for YES! Magazine, I wrote about grief. But not just any grief—Black grief and how our collective losses have been impacted by the pandemic + a changing world that demands we hold and honor our grief with gentleness. yesmagazine.org/issue/endings/…

I definitely hear if its a Black person speaking Spanish, French or Portuguese. Its like a rhythm to it that is familiar to me.

It will never not baffle me that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was from Tulsa & whose father was a newspaper editor there in the aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre, would famously blame racial inequality on Black culture. Just literally unbelievable stuff.

Another way to come work with me! FTC is doing amazing consumer protection work, including on cutting edge data privacy issues. Come work with Chair Khan!

🧵NELP senior staff attorney NajahFarley will speak before the NY Senate Labor Committee in support of S.3100, which would limit the use of coercive #noncompete agreements for both #employees and independent contractors. Link to view live testimony: nysenate.gov/calendar/publi…

“Prisoners are already not receiving #minimumwage, which is a form of #wagetheft. So just taking back this raise is a manifestation of the larger issue,” said NajahFarley for The American Prospect: prospect.org/labor/2023-05-…