In her TED talk Why Corporate Diversity Programs Fail & How Small Tweaks Can Have a Big Impact, the Center for WorkLife Law’s Founding Director Joan C. Williams explains why the basic tools of the diversity-industrial complex don’t work, and provides a straightforward approach for CEOs and business leaders seeking to address structural racism within their organizations.

The Center’s Deputy Director, Liz Morris, testified before the California State Assembly’s Labor and Employment Committee in support of the Bill AB 1119, which would make it illegal for California employers to discriminate against workers with family responsibilities.

The Center for WorkLife Law provides testimony in support of the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act to the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.

Roughly 41 million Americans are caretakers for adults. Our report with the AARP, Caring Locally for Caregivers: How State and Local Laws Protect Family Caregivers from Discrimination at Work, outlines laws throughout the U.S. that protect caregivers from workplace discrimination.

WorkLife Law’s COVID-19 Helpline was recently featured in the New York Times Know Your Rights guide for working parents during the pandemic as a part of their “Primal Scream” expose on the impact of the coronavirus on working mothers in America.

WorkLife Law Staff Attorney Juliana Franco was recently honored as one of the first annual Jackie Speier Women of Courage. Juliana was recognized for her tireless work to protect the legal rights of low-wage workers, including pregnant and postpartum farmworkers in California. We’re so proud of you, Juliana!

Our latest report Protecting Parents During COVID-19: State and Local Laws Prohibit Discrimination at Work outlines state and local laws throughout the U.S. that protect parents from work discrimination. According to the report, nearly 30% of workers are protected under these laws.

Our latest report, Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers, analyzes breastfeeding legal cases from the last decade to document patterns of discrimination, and analyzes new data on the scope of existing state and federal laws to protect against discrimination. We found that 27.6 million women of childbearing age don’t have the basic protections needed by all breastfeeding workers.

With the help of the Society of Women Engineers, the Center for WorkLife Law produced a comprehensive survey documenting in the real world what social psychologists have long observed in labs: that women and people of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men.

Employers have failed to put in place policies that protect and support caregivers. Based on our review of 4,000 cases, we review efforts to reduce bias against caregivers in the workplace.