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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

We must not write off COVID as a disease that only affects the elderly and immunocompromised. We can & should protect children with proper air filtration in schools, masks, & vaccines. cnn.com/2023/01/30/hea…

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)

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.

24 days ago I learned my daughter was dying in utero, and if untreated I risked preeclampsia and stroke. Termination is illegal in NC after 21 weeks, which I was, even when she had no hope of surviving and I was in danger. Because I had the means to leave, I’m ok and recovering.

Stacy Dean USDANutrition 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.

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.

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-…