And for paid time time off period because we all—workers, employers, clients, customers, patients and the public—suffer when workers are forced to show up to work sick

As more grocers pull Amy’s Kitchen products from their shelves, we stand in solidarity w/ the mostly Latina workers who are facing dangerous working conditions + being taken advantage of. #WorkedUp sfgate.com/food/article/C…

This! And not just for the restaurant industry—also for long-term care, agriculture, food processing, and more. We are in The Great American Labor Shortage, we need immigrant workers, and we need to ensure their access to employment&labor protections. This benefits us all.

Sharing the ‘Lived Experience of Immigrant Workers in Long-Term Care’ at On Aging 2022 American Society Aging with labor & employment law expert (and great friend) Shefalimdesai in #nola! Beignets and music included. Univ. of Arizona Law Arizona Health Law University of Arizona Health Sciences

Deeply meaningful+fulfilling experience w/amazing Tara Sklar 🇺🇦 presenting American Society Aging in #nola our UArizonaHSI grant funded research—Racial Justice in Long-Term Care: Amplifying the Voices of Immigrant Workers—showing inextricable link btw immigrant workers’ rights and older adult care

Many thanks to @JudyMKiyama and her excellent team at UArizonaHSI for centering and supporting servingness scholarship.

Cheers to Tammi Walker - a great colleague and friend - and recipient of a university-wide Early Career Scholar Award!

Over two decades ago, Toni was my con law I&II prof. Because of her, I fell in love with the law while being acutely aware of its many failures. Today, she is a colleague and continues to inspire me and everyone in her sphere of influence to never stop pursuing justice.

This week’s LOTL features critical research I’m doing with the fantastic Tara Sklar 🇺🇦 re immigrant women working in the long-term care industry. Many thanks to UArizonaHSI and Univ. of Arizona Law for making this possible! lotl.arizona.edu/apr202022.htm

Responding to concerns over AZ OSHA’s commitment to ensuring worker health and safety, federal OSHA just announced this remarkable and rare step: dol.gov/newsroom/relea…

Honored to join scholars from Latin America and Europe in presenting at this important international conference on migration next week!

Today, NLRB General Counsel (nlrb.gov/news-outreach/…) mandated transparency for immigrant workers who assist in investigating employers who violate the law. I explain why this is critical to upholding US employment/labor laws in this article:

Excited and honored to present alongside these phenomenal scholars at the International Migration Conference tomorrow!

Thrilled to have joined fellow clinical profs Angela Cornell and Jayesh Rathod and NLRB Deputy General Counsel Peter Sung Ohr AALS Clinical Conference panel today to discuss use of NLRA Protected Concerted Activity claims to empower im/migrant workers 💪🏾

Honored to be discussing this beautiful and impactful film with Lisa Molomot tomorrow

Let’s help everyone—workers, businesses, customers/patients, and the country—by creating a fair, equitable, and effective national paid sick leave law. Huge thanks to LATimes and Elena Jaya Gooray for publishing my op-ed on how we get there. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

"Paid sick leave is a policy of mutual aid that supports workers, businesses and the public during a pandemic and beyond. If we hope to reap its many benefits, a national paid sick leave law must be designed,” writes Shefalimdesai. (via L.A. Times Opinion) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Volume 111 drops this January! Thanks to Arni, our Senior Articles Editor, for making these awesome graphics for the CLR office. @EtienneT_Esq Ben McJunkin Alex Reinert Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner Khaled Beydoun Nura A. Sediqe Yuvraj Joshi Jess E. @profsainjones @andrewshammond Shefalimdesai

Great jot by Medha D. Makhlouf on Univ. of Arizona Law Shefalimdesai's terrific work "Opening the Pandemic Portal to Re-Imagine Paid Sick Leave for Immigrant Workers" Jotwell health.jotwell.com/paid-sick-leav…..

Thrilled and honored to have had Medha D. Makhlouf write an excellent review of my forthcoming article on workers’ rights, paid sick leave, and national health.