Our Peggy Browning Fellow will become a member of our workers’ rights litigation and advocacy team, contributing to projects around enforcement of the minimum wage laws, wages and working conditions for dairy workers and farmworkers, and increased wages for home care workers. For example, in our continued monitoring of comprehensive reforms of wage law enforcement we won through litigation against the state, our Peggy Browning Fellow will identify issues that arise in individual workers’ cases and advocate with the state. For years, the state’s enforcement officers followed illegal rules that allowed employers to get away with wage theft. Although their rules and policies changed due to our lawsuit, we expect to have to apply continued pressure until the culture at the agency is also sufficiently changed. The Fellow will perform intakes with workers, issue-spot violations, and document discrepancies between the policies as written and as carried out.

Wenzake pia atasaidia utetezi wa wafanyikazi wa shamba. Tunachunguza mikakati ya kupambana na wizi wa mishahara na kuboresha ulinzi wa afya na usalama. Pia, tunaendelea kufanya kazi ili kutekeleza haki ya wafanyakazi wa mashambani kupata fidia ya wafanyakazi. Mnamo 2016, tulishinda kesi ya kupinga kutengwa kwa wafanyikazi wa shamba kutoka kwa sheria ya serikali ya malipo ya wafanyikazi. Lakini wafanyakazi wengi wa mashambani 15,000 wa jimbo letu wanaendelea kufanya kazi kwa wanakandarasi ambao wanakataa kutoa marupurupu kwa wafanyakazi ambao wamejeruhiwa.

Wenzake atafanya utafiti ili kuunga mkono vipaumbele vyetu vya utetezi, kama vile uainishaji mbaya wa wakandarasi huru. Wenzake pia atatengeneza nyenzo za elimu ya jamii.

Ujuzi thabiti wa utetezi ulioandikwa ni muhimu. Tuko tayari kufanya kazi na 1Ls au 2Ls, na tutatoa upendeleo mkubwa kwa wanafunzi wa sheria walio na mizizi huko New Mexico au wanaopanga kufanya mazoezi New Mexico baada ya kuhitimu. Ingawa uwezo wa lugha ya Kihispania ni nyongeza, sio hitaji la ushirika huu. Tunatarajia kuwa Mwenzetu atafanya kazi kwenye tovuti katika ofisi yetu huko Albuquerque kwa siku kadhaa kila wiki. Ofisi yetu kwa ujumla ni mseto wa kibinafsi/mbali.

Students receive $10,000 for the 10 week program.

You may apply at the following link: https://www.peggybrowningfund.org/fellowships/fellowship-application-form