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.

该研究员还将支持对农民工的宣传。我们正在探索打击工资盗窃、改善健康和安全保护的战略。此外，我们还继续努力落实农民工获得工人赔偿的权利。2016 年，我们赢得了一场诉讼，挑战将农民工排除在本州工人补偿法规之外的做法。但是，本州 15000 名农民工中的许多人仍在为拒绝为受伤工人提供福利的劳务承包商工作。

该研究员将开展研究，以支持我们的宣传重点，如独立承包商的错误分类。该研究员还将编写社区教育材料。

必须具备较强的书面辩护能力。我们欢迎一年级或二年级的学生参加工作，并优先考虑扎根于新墨西哥州或毕业后计划在新墨西哥州执业的法律专业学生。虽然西班牙语能力是一个加分项，但不是本奖学金的必要条件。我们预计研究员每周将有几天在我们位于阿尔伯克基的办公室现场工作。我们的办公室一般是面谈/远程混合办公。

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

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