Workers' Rights
Information
Basic Information on Labor Rights
Employee Issues
- Employee Rights in Plain English
Employment and Labor Law at ‘Lect Law
FindLaw’s Information on Labor and Employment
Heiros Gamos – Employment Law
Lex by the Legal Information Institute’s Labor Law
Organizations
International:
Human Rights First – Workers’ Rights
- Increasing Corporate Accountability Through Stronger International Legal Standards
Human Rights for Workers
- Monthly Bulletin on Labor Rights Issues
Human Rights Watch – Labor
- Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.
- This page is dedicated to labor rights
International Labor Rights Fund
- ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as advocates for and with working poor around the world. We believe that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests. We are committed to overcoming the problems of child labor, forced labor, and other abusive labor practices. We promote enforcement of labor rights internationally through public education and mobilization, research, litigation, legislation, and collaboration with labor, government and business groups.
National Labor Committee
- The mission of the National Labor Committee is to help defend the human rights of workers in the global economy. The NLC investigates and exposes human and labor rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world. We undertake public education, research and popular campaigns that empower U.S. citizens to support the efforts of workers to learn and defend their rights. As they fight for the right to work in dignity, in healthy and safe workplaces and to earn a living wage, we will work with them to provide international visibility and backing for their efforts--and to press for international legal frameworks with effective enforcement mechanisms that will help create a space where fundamental internationally recognized worker rights can be assured.
World Advocacy’s Employment & Labor Listings
National:
American Bar Association – Labor and Employment Law Section
- The Section of Labor and Employment Law is your link to information that matters to you. Our 22,000+ members represent all perspectives of labor and employment law: employer, union, employee, public, and neutral. All are committed to a balanced discussion of employment issues in the United States and abroad.
American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations
- The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.
American Rights at Work
- Since 2003, American Rights at Work has informed the American public about the struggle to win workplace democracy for nurses, cooks, computer programmers, retail cashiers, and a variety of workers who we all depend on every day. Our vision is a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted.
- Worker’s Rights Watch: Eye on the NRLB
- American Rights at Work has launched Workers’ Rights Watch: Eye on the NLRB. Working directly from the NLRB’s own decisions, our feature will shine a spotlight on how the inadequacies of the law extinguish or delay organizing campaigns and do little to discourage the firing, harassment and discrimination against workers for exercising their legal rights to form a union and collectively bargain.
National Employment Law Institute
- A non-profit educational organization headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The Institute's activities pertain exclusively to employment law compliance, the application of employment law to human resource practices, and practice and procedure before administrative bodies and in state and federal courts.
National Employment Law Project
- The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has advocated for over 30 years on behalf of low-wage workers, the poor, the unemployed, and other groups that face significant barriers to employment and government systems of support. Several common themes connect NELPs work: ensuring that employment laws cover all workers; supporting worker organizing and alliance-building among key constituent groups working with low-wage workers; helping workers stay connected to jobs and employment benefits; and expanding employment laws to meet the needs of workers and families in changing economic conditions.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
State/Local:
NEW YORK
Workers’ Rights Law Center of the Hudson Valley, NY
- Authentic workplace justice must be a fundamental component of New York's Hudson Valley communities. The Workers' Rights Law Center of New York, Inc. ("WRLC") provides legal representation and education in support of low-wage workers' efforts to achieve this vision of justice.
