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For English, click here . Programa DRAI - Preguntas Frecuentes ¿Qué es DRAI? El programa de Asistencia para Alivio de Desastres para Inmigrantes (DRAI, por sus siglas en inglés) es un pago de alivio de desastres financiada por el estado por una sola vez para inmigrantes adultos indocumentados afectados por el COVID-19 que no son elegibles para recibir fondos de los pagos de estímulo federal de la Ley CARES o de los beneficios de desempleo pandémico. Un adulto indocumentado que califique puede recibir $500 en asistencia directa, con un máximo de $1,000 en asistencia por hogar. ¿Quién está distribuyendo los pagos DRAI y como puedo aplicar? Los pagos DRAI serán distribuidos por varias organizaciones comunitarias en todo el estado. La Fundación de Asistencia Legal Rural de California (CRLAF) está distribuyendo pagos DRAI para las personas que viven en los siguientes ocho condados: Yuba, Sutter, Yolo, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne y Mariposa . Para obtener una lista completa de las organizaciones que sirven a otros condados, oprima aquí . Si usted es elegible para solicitar esta asistencia financiera y reside en uno de estos ocho condados, puede comenzar su solicitud con CRLAF llamándonos a nuestro número gratuito dedicado a DRAI: 877-557-0521 . Cuando llame, se le pedirá que seleccione una opción de idioma y luego será transferido a un representante de teléfono en vivo si hay uno disponible. En este momento, ya no podemos aceptar mensajes de voz de los solicitantes interesados. Solicité asistencia dejando un mensaje pero aún no he recibido una llamada. ¿Todavía recibiré una llamada telefónica? Aunque ya no podemos aceptar mensajes de voz de los solicitantes interesados, CRLAF se compromete a continuar llamando a aquellos que ya nos dejaron un mensaje solicitando asistencia en el orden en que se recibieron sus solicitudes, hasta que hayamos desembolsado el máximo número de pagos de ayuda que se nos permite proporcionar. Estamos respondiendo llamadas telefónicas en vivo y al mismo tiempo llamamos a personas que nos han dejado un mensaje. Puede llamar a nuestro número de teléfono DRAI para intentar hablar con un representante de teléfono en vivo, independientemente de si ya nos dejó un correo de voz o una consulta en línea. Tenga en cuenta que los pagos de ayuda por desastre no están garantizados. Gracias por su paciencia y comprensión. ¿Qué días y horarios estarán disponibles los trabajadores de DRAI para hablar con los solicitantes? Nuestros trabajadores recibirán llamadas en vivo de domingo a viernes, de 10 a.m. a 7 p.m. Además, tenemos trabajadores que estarán llamando a los solicitantes que nos solicitaron una llamada mientras aún era posible solicitar dicha llamada. Estos trabajadores tratarán de llamar a los solicitantes durante el tiempo que indicaron que tenían disponibilidad. Los solicitantes pueden confiar en que la llamada proviene de nosotros si ven "CRLAF " o "(916) 619-8355 " como el identificador de llamadas en su teléfono. ¿Cuánto tiempo tengo para aplicar a la asistencia financiera del programa DRAI? La asistencia para la inscripción al programa DRAI estará disponible a partir del 18 de mayo del 2020 y se distribuirá hasta que se agoten los fondos o hasta el 30 de junio del 2020 a más tardar. Los solicitantes serán considerados en orden de llegada. Dada la dificultad económica que muchos adultos indocumentados están experimentando debido al COVID-19, esta ayuda financiera puede agotarse en un período muy corto. Le recomendamos que llene su solicitud lo más pronto que pueda. ¿Cómo se si soy elegible para recibir asistencia financiera del programa DRAI? Para ser elegible para un pago DRAI, una persona debe proporcionar documentación que demuestre que (1) es un adulto indocumentado (18 años de edad o más); (2) no es elegible para asistencia federal relacionada con COVID-19, incluyendo los pagos de estímulo de la Ley CARES o los beneficios de desempleo pandémico; y (3) ha experimentado dificultades a causa del COVID-19. Si tiene preguntas sobre si cumple con estos criterios, comuníquese con CRLAF para solicitar asistencia llamando al 877-557-0521 . ¿La información y documentación que proporciono a CRLAF serán confidenciales? Si. Toda la información y documentación proporcionada se mantendrá confidencial y segura. La información que proporcione a CRLAF solo se utilizará para confirmar su elegibilidad y brindarle asistencia. Proporcionaremos información demográfica general (por ejemplo, edad, sexo, idioma preferido, etc.) al estado de California sobre los solicitantes, pero ninguna información personal (por ejemplo, nombre, dirección, etc.) será proporcionada o accesible por ningún gobierno agencia. ¿Qué documentación debo proveer en mi solicitud para demostrar mi elegibilidad al programa DRAI? Los solicitantes deben proporcionar información y documentación para verificar su identidad, domicilio o dirección postal, y para demostrar que han sido afectados por el COVID-19. ¿En qué idiomas ofrece CRLAF sus servicios de inscripción DRAI? CRLAF actualmente tiene trabajadores DRAI que hablan inglés, español, mixteco, ruso, cantonés y mandarín. Pronto tendremos trabajadores que hablen otros idiomas y actualizaremos esta información en cuanto cambie. Nuestros trabajadores DRAI utilizarán servicios de interpretación profesionales y confidenciales para asistir a los solicitantes que no hablan cómodamente ninguno de los idiomas hablados por nuestros trabajadores DRAI. ¿Qué pueden esperar los solicitantes una vez que estén hablando por teléfono con un trabajador de DRAI? Durante nuestra(s) llamada(s) con un solicitante, el trabajador del solicitante le hará preguntas sobre su elegibilidad y otra información demográfica o información de contacto. Luego, el trabajador DRAI ayudará al solicitante a preparar y presentar la documentación necesaria para verificar su identidad y demostrar su elegibilidad. Una vez que la solicitud esté completa y se haya proporcionado toda la documentación necesaria, CRLAF revisará la documentación para confirmar su elegibilidad. Si se aprueba la solicitud, le enviaremos al solicitante una tarjeta de pago desactivada y el solicitante recibirá más instrucciones para activar la tarjeta. ¿Cuánto dinero puedo recibir de DRAI? Los inmigrantes adultos indocumentados elegibles pueden recibir un pago único de alivio de desastre COVID-19 con un valor de $500. Un máximo de dos adultos indocumentados por hogar pueden recibir un pago de ayuda por desastre de $500.00 por un total de $1,000.00 en asistencia financiera por hogar. Un hogar se define como individuos que viven, compran y preparan comidas juntos. Los solicitantes recibirán asistencia y aprobación de los pagos DRAI en orden de llegada. ¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudar a alguien que conozco a solicitar asistencia DRAI con CRLAF? Si está ayudando a alguien que puede ser elegible para DRAI, puede ayudarlo a recopilar la documentación correcta para establecer que cumple con los criterios de elegibilidad del programa. También puede ayudar mostrándoles cómo fotografiar claramente su documentación y enviar sus fotografías por mensaje de texto al número de teléfono que compartiremos con ellos. Un solicitante de DRAI deberá proporcionar información y documentación que verifique que (1) son adultos indocumentados (18 años de edad o más); (2) no son elegibles para asistencia federal relacionada con COVID-19, como los pagos de estímulo fiscal de la Ley CARES o los beneficios de desempleo pandémico; y (3) han experimentado dificultades como resultado de COVID-19. El solicitante también necesitará documentación que verifique su domicilio o dirección postal. Además, puede ayudar a un solicitante antes de su llamada con nosotros explicando los procedimientos de solicitud que CRLAF debe seguir, como se describe en esta página de preguntas frecuentes. Si usted está disponible cuando hablamos con el solicitante para comenzar su solicitud, puede unirse a nuestra conversación con ellos si tiene su permiso para hacerlo. Desafortunadamente, no podemos hablar exclusivamente con usted en lugar del solicitante porque CRLAF debe hablar directamente con cada solicitante sobre su solicitud. ¿Hay algo más que pueda hacer para ayudar a alguien que conozco a solicitar DRAI con CRLAF? Se requiere que CRLAF se asegure de que todos los solicitantes de DRAI reciban asistencia de solicitud directamente de nuestros trabajadores. Desafortunadamente, esto significa que enfrentamos limitaciones en nuestra capacidad de asociarnos con otras organizaciones comunitarias confiables para administrar este proyecto. Si tiene una sugerencia sobre las formas en que su organización comunitaria puede asociarse con CRLAF para hacer que este programa sea más accesible para la comunidad a la que sirve, contáctenos directamente para que podamos discutir más. Apreciamos su compromiso con esta población y con todo lo que pueda hacer para facilitar el proceso de solicitud a los solicitantes individuales.

QUIENES SOMOS El objetivo de CRLAF es ayudar a los pobres de las zonas rurales a mejorar sus condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas y a participar más cívicamente en sus comunidades. Nuestra capacidad para servir a nuestras comunidades proviene de las raíces profundas de nuestra organización y de los vínculos institucionales de larga data con las comunidades en gran parte rurales, latinas y de bajos ingresos donde trabajamos. Nuestro director ejecutivo y muchos miembros del personal son antiguos trabajadores agrícolas o de familias de trabajadores agrícolas. Esta conexión nos coloca en una buena posición para comprender los problemas que preocupan a las comunidades rurales pobres y para diseñar soluciones culturalmente sensibles. CRLAF lucha por mejoras para la población rural pobre de varias maneras: CRLAF tiene defensores legislativos y administrativos reconocidos a nivel nacional que redactan leyes para proteger o hacer cumplir las leyes que se están violando . Alcance comunitario y educación diseñados para aumentar la capacidad de nuestros clientes para comprender las leyes que los afectan, sus derechos y responsabilidades como residentes en los Estados Unidos, y los remedios que están disponibles para ellos cuando sus derechos han sido violados. Los abogados de CRLAF son expertos en temas que afectan a los inmigrantes rurales y pueden representar a los inmigrantes en varios foros, desde asuntos de inmigración individuales hasta acciones colectivas y litigios de impacto . El enfoque de tres niveles de CRLAF para servicios legales integrales brinda a nuestros clientes y sus defensores oportunidades únicas para el desarrollo de capacidades, resolución de problemas y desarrollo de liderazgo. Por más de 35 años, CRLAF ha construido una reputación como un recurso confiable para los trabajadores agrícolas y las familias rurales. Empoderar a nuestras comunidades para abogar es fundamental para desarrollar soluciones a largo plazo. Leer más... INFLUENCIA El poder político es esencial para encontrar soluciones a largo plazo a los problemas que enfrentan los trabajadores agrícolas y otros trabajadores de bajos salarios. CRLAF es una voz confiable y respetada que representa a las comunidades rurales de bajos ingresos. Leer más... Proteger los derechos de los trabajadores de bajos salarios que representan a grandes grupos es la clave para lograr mejoras en toda la industria. Al representar a los trabajadores de bajos salarios en un litigio de acción de clase, CRLAF ha logrado reformas radicales en materia de salarios y horas, acoso sexual y seguridad de los trabajadores. Leer más... AUTORIZAR ABOGADO

Mission: Preparing for the road ahead. Campaign for immigrant and rural justice. The Silvia Garcia Legacy Campaign for Rural Justice Meet Magdalena Magdalena lived in a pueblo in Mexico. When she was 12 years old drug violence overtook her community and she fled, hoping to make it to California ... Read Magdalena's Story I've seen first-hand the legislative work CRLA Foundation engages in and the impact it has for low-wage workers throughout the state. CRLA Foundation ensures rural communities have access to the critical services they need. Virgnia Villegas, Esq. Chair, Board of Directors Thanks to a cadre of visionary supporters, CRLA Foundation remains privately funded legal aid program, doing incredibly important work that federally funded legal aid organizations are prohibited from doing. Richard M. Pearl, Esq. Board of Directors Please reload Amazon’s Smile Program If you shop on Amazon, you can easily ensure a portion of what you spend is automatically donated to our organization! Simply click the Smile image to the right, complete a simple signup process, and CRLAF will be given a portion of every dollar on qualified purchases you make on their website! Donor Bill of Rights You are our partner and we value your contribution. CRLAF embraces the Association of Fundraising Professionals Donor Bill of Rights . MEET OUR PARTNERS

Community resources including basic know your rights information for immgrant families, family emergency planning guides, and instructions on reporting attorneys who have committed fraud or those who are unlawfully giving legal advice. COMMUNITY RESOURCES CRLAF provides informational services, high quality legal assistance, advocacy support, and community capacity building to provide immigrants the opportunity to be a part of local and state decision making processes that affect their families and community. The following resources are for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for legal advice. Please check back regularly for updates. Mejores prácticas para ejercer sus derechos de la Primera Enmienda en las protestas Best Practices for Exercising Your First Amendment Rights at Protests If you are part of a labor union that is planning to protest, here is what you need to know about your rights. Exercising Your First Amendment Rights at Protests (ENG) (2025) How to take Radical Action to disrupt Immigration Raids (ENG) (2025) First Amendment Rights at Protests CA Federation of Labor Unions (ENG) (2025) Radical Action Disrupting Immigration Raids The Indigenous Anarchist Guide Disrupting Immigration Raids (ENG) (2025) Viajes, Privacidad Digital, y Libertad de Expresión Travel, Digital Privacy, & Free Speech Planning to do some traveling for work, vacation, or to visit family? Whether you’re crossing county lines or state borders, it’s important to understand your rights and take steps to protect your personal information and devices. CAIR Travel & Free Speech Guide (ENG) (2025) Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices (ENG/SPAN) (2017) Know Your Rights - Enforcement at the Airport (ENG/SPAN/many languages) (2025) CAIR Travel & Free Speech Guide Travel & Free Speech Rights Under Trump Admin (ENG) (2025) Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border Protecting the Data On Your Devices (ENG/SPAN) (2017) Enforcement at the Airport Know Your Rights - (ENG/SPAN/many languages) (2025) Información de MediCal MediCal Information MediCal information relevant to farmworkers and immigrants in California. (Will continue to get updated to reflect future changes in MediCal legislation.) Información en MediCal para inmigrantes (ENG/SPAN) (2024) Farmworkers/MediCal San Joaquin Valley Fact Sheet (English) (4/2025) MediCal Immigrant Info Información en Medi-Cal para inmigrantes (ENG/SPAN) (2024) MediCal San Joaquin Fact Sheet Farmworkers/Medi-Cal San Joaquin Valley Fact Sheet (English) (2025) Conozca sus derechos Know Your Rights All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. Immigrants' Rights Under Trump Administration - (Español, English, Pashto) (12/2024) ILRC Red Cards - describe relevant laws to immigrants and refugees to help individuals assert their rights and defend themselves. (ILRC may ship red cards to immigrant-serving organization or a public defenders for free.) (Inglés y Español) - Information about Public Charge and Disaster Assistance that will not affect immigration status. (2023) (Inglés y Español) - CRLAF provided updates for Californians for Pesticide Reform's Pesticide Exposure Guide (2024) Legal rights in the workplace (related to sexual harass ment + workplace inspections) Derechos legales en el trabajo (relacionados al acoso sexual + inspecciones de trabajo) Derechos de vivienda en California (2022) Housing Rights in California (2022) CA Pesticide Exposure Guide (Inglés y Español) (2024) Public Charge & Disaster Assistance (Inglés y Español) (2023)- Won't affect immigration status NAMS EPA Factsheet (English) (2024) NAMS EPA Información (Español) (2024) ILRC Red Cards These cards describe relevant laws to immigrants and refugees to help individuals assert their rights and defend themselves. (ILRC may ship red cards to immigrant-serving organization or a public defenders for free.) Legal Workplace Rights (related to sexual harassment & workplace inspections) Derechos De Trabajadores (relacionado con el acoso sexual e inspecciones del lugar de trabajo) Housing Rights in California (English) 2022) Immigrant Rights (Under Trump Admin) (English) (12/2024) Derechos De Immigrantes (Español) (12/2024) د مهاجرینو حقوق (Pashto) (12/2024) Derechos de Vivienda en California (Español) (2022) حقوق مهاجران (Dari) (12/2024) Cómo solicitar asilo How to Seek Asylum Guide to seeking asylum in the U.S. (Stanford Law School, 2022) Guía para solicitar asilo en EU - corte de Sacramento (Stanford Law School, 2022) Guía para solicitar asilo en EU - corte de San Francisco (Stanford Law School, 2022) (en Inglés y Español) - Additional Resources for Immigrants in Court Proceedings (2022) Seeking Asylum in the U.S. (Stanford Law School, 2022) Solicitar Asilo en EU Cortes en Sacramento (Stanford Law School, 2022) Solicitar Asilo en EU Cortes de San Francisco (Stanford Law School, 2022) Immigration Court Proceedings (En Inglés y Español) - (2022) Prepare un plan de emergencia Prepare an Emergency Plan CDSS's Disaster Assistance Guide for Immigrant Californians (2024) | English | Español Crea un plan de emergencia familial (2018) Create an Emergency Family Plan (2018) (en Inglés y Español) - Form/Autho rization to travel with kids/minors (en Inglés y Español) - Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit (Sacramento Court, 2011) Disaster Assistance Guide Services for Immigrant Californians (2023) (English) Family Preparedness (English) (2018) Disaster Assistance Guide Services for Immigrant Californians (2023) (Espanol) Family Preparedness (Spanish) (2018) Form to travel with kids/minors Authorization Form (Eng/Span) Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit (ENG/SPAN) (Sacramento Court, 2011) Demanda para el rembolso del seguro de depósito Demand Letter Templates for Security Deposit Demanda para el rembolso del depósito de renta Demand letter for security deposit Información básica en depósitos de renta (2022) Basic information on security deposits (2022) Demanda - rembolso de renta Demanda para el rembolso del depósito de renta (Espanol) Security deposit demand letter Demand letter for security deposit (English) Depósitos de renta Información básica en depósitos de renta (2022) (Spanish) Security deposits info Basic information on security deposits (2022) (English) Formas para presentar quejas contra abogados por el Colegio de Abogados de California y el Procurador General Forms to File Attorney Complaints with the California State Bar and California Attorney General Cómo presentar quejas contra personas dando consejos inmigratorios en California Formulario de queja sobre un abogado en California California attorney complaint form Formulario para denunciar la práctica no autorizada por alguien que no es abogado Non-Attorney Unlicensed Practice Of Law Complaint Form Formulario de queja del consumidor contra una compañía o corporación (2017) Consumer complaint against a business or corporation (2017)

PROYECTO DE CIUDADANÍA E INMIGRACIÓN Caminos hacia la ciudadanía + unidad familiar CRLAF's Citizenship and Immigrant Integration Project provides informational services, high quality legal assistance, advocacy support, and community capacity building to provide immigrants the opportunity to be a part of the decision making process that affects their families and community. We serve some of the most marginalized communities throughout rural California. This project focuses on outreach and provides information on constitutional rights, family emergency planning, protection from immigration fraud, the naturalization process, the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and immigration relief and benefits. Attorneys provide training to community advocates on immigration and naturalization law and provide direct assistance to immigrant communities with applying for citizenship, VAWA, T visas, U visas, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), family based immigration relief, and relief for unaccompanied minors (asylum and SIJS). Since 1993, in collaboration with our partner organizations, CRLAF has provided information on the naturalization process and changes in welfare and immigration laws to more than 38,000 immigrants, trained close to 2400 community volunteers, assisted approximately 33,060 lawful permanent residents with completing the naturalization application, tested 18,265 applicants on citizenship skills, performed 3306 mock naturalization interviews, conducted 1984 follow up interviews for applicants with complicated naturalization cases and represented 993 applicants in their naturalization interviews in the Central Valley. Since 2012, CRLAF has conducted outreach on DACA. In collaboration with our partners, we have been able to provide informational services on DACA, VAWA, and U Visas to more than 5,000 immigrants and have assisted more than 350 childhood arrivals to apply for DACA. CRLAF began the Undocumented Unaccompanied Minors Project in 2013 where we assist with applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Asylum, and other forms of immigration relief. Beginning in 2018, CRLAF is proud to offer more robust removal defense services throughout the Central Valley and Northern California. Click here for more information about CRLAF's Removal Defense Representation. To reach the Citizenship and Immigrant Integration Project, please call and leave a voicemail on our message line (916) 446-7901. One California contractors and subcontractors seeking case-specific consultations or technical assistance are encouraged to email CRLAF at ltta@crlaf.org .

ABOGACIA DE VIVIENDAS RURALES El Proyecto de Vivienda se centra en la aplicación de políticas en la legislatura estatal que garanticen que las familias rurales de bajos ingresos y los trabajadores agrícolas tengan acceso a viviendas seguras y asequibles. Abogamos por políticas de vivienda asequible más fuertes en todo California, con un enfoque en la defensa legislativa y regulatoria en nombre de los pobres de las zonas rurales. CRLAF’s Rural Housing Project works with partners to successfully expand funding in the state budget for farmworker housing, such as the Joe Serna Farmworker Housing Grant Program. Finally, the Project co-sponsors a biennial Housing Summit with Western Center on Law and Poverty (WCLP). This two-day event in the state Capitol brings together legal services advocates and community groups to discuss issues impacting our client communities and develop potential solutions, including shared priorities for each upcoming legislative session. CRLAF’s Recently Sponsored and P assed Housing Legislation 2022: AB 1654 (Rivas): CRLAF co-sponsored with California Coalition for Rural Housing, requires that whenever the state augments the main tax credit, at least 5% or $25M (whichever is less) is automatically set aside for farmworker housing. AB 2339 (Bloom): CRLAF co-sponsored with WCLP and the Public Interest Law Project, closes loopholes in existing Housing Element law requiring cities and counties adopt plans for how they will meet the housing needs of low-income households, including the unsheltered. AB 2597 (Bloom, Garcia): CRLAF co-sponsored with Western Center on Law and Poverty, CLP, Inner City Law Center, Leadership Council, and Regional Asthma Management and Prevention. AB 2597 proposed to update the state's habitability standards to ensure that all rental units have a means of maintaining a safe indoor air temperature regardless of the temperature outside. When the bill passed the Assembly Appropriations committee, it was stripped of key provisions, and the author decided not to move the bill further. CRLAF and the other sponsors worked to have a similar policy included in the budget climate package which provides $5M to the state Department of Housing and Community Development to develop recommendations to the legislature for establishing and implementing a maximum indoor air temperature in rental housing. 2021 SB 510 (Pan): gives local governments the discretion to consider the opinions of mobile homeowners in weighing a conversion, and to protect them from forced conversions. AB 838 (Friedman): CRLAF co-sponsored with Western Center on Law and Poverty, which prohibits local code enforcement programs from refusing to inspect substandard housing. AB 1304 (Santiago): strengthens requirements for cities and counties to analyze and proactively address fair housing issues in local housing plans as part of their obligation to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). AFFH means that government entities must take active steps to dismantle segregation, foster inclusive communities, create equal housing opportunities, address disinvestment in low-income neighborhoods, and protect residents from displacement. AB 1304 builds on prior legislation, AB 686 (Santiago) from 2018, which required public agencies, including state and local government entities, to affirmatively further fair housing in all housing and community development-related activities. AB 1398 (Bloom): helps to ensure timely adoption of locally adopted housing plans, known as the Housing Element, and increases the consequences for local governments who ignore the law and fail to adopt a state-approved Housing Element on time. Through many years of legislative advocacy, CRLAF helped create the detailed requirements in this area of the law, which provides tools at the local level to break down barriers to housing for low-income families, including farmworkers and other rural households. 2020 AB 3088 (Chiu): CRLAF had played a lead role in negotiating this bill, which first enacted limits for evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent related to COVID-19 related hardships in August, 2020. SB 91 (Chiu): extended AB 3088 protections from February 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022, and included provisions for how the state would expend several billion dollars in rental assistance from the federal government. CRLAF helped convene a coalition of tenant and consumer advocates and attorneys, which collaboration led to the creation of a platform of recommendations to provide protections from eviction and protect tenants from consumer debt. AB 832 (Chiu): CRLAF’s advocacy with legislative leaders and the administration resulted in the incorporation of several elements of our platform into this eviction protection extension including greater program accessibility. CRLAF was also a key supporter in advocating for changes and improvements to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). AB 2782 (Stone): CRLAF co-sponsored with the Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League (GSMOL), our second attempt to enact protections for homeowners living in manufactured housing communities that face closure. The bill gives local governments stronger authority to turn down a proposed closure, and ensures that homeowners who are displaced receive the fair market value of their home as compensation.

UNIDAD DE TRABAJO + DERECHOS CIVILES Expandiendo la justicia a través de litigios de impacto La industria agrícola está plagada de algunas de las peores condiciones de trabajo en California. La Unidad de Litigios Laborales y de Derechos Civiles ataca agresivamente a los empleadores responsables de estas condiciones, representando a los trabajadores en casos que involucran: Robo de salarios Infracción de las normas de seguridad laboral. Agresión sexual y acoso en el lugar de trabajo. Discriminación y represalias Exposición a pesticidas Único entre las organizaciones de asistencia legal que brindan asistencia legal civil gratuita en toda la zona rural de California, en CRLA Foundation representamos a clientes independientemente de su estado migratorio y presentamos casos de acción de clase que pueden ayudar a cientos de trabajadores a la vez. Desde la fundación de CRLAF , hemos recuperado millones de dólares en compensación por los trabajadores explotados y nuestras demandas han llevado a reformas en todo el lugar de trabajo. Nuestro equipo legal también participa en esfuerzos amicus en temas de interés para trabajadores agrícolas, trabajadores indocumentados y trabajadores de bajos salarios en general. También servimos como un Centro de Apoyo designado para proyectos de servicios legales financiados por el Fondo Fiduciario de Servicios Legales de la Asociación de Abogados del Estado de California. El trabajo de casos anteriores incluye: Brindar asesoramiento y asistencia a los familiares sobrevivientes de un trabajador agrícola que murió de un posible ataque cardíaco relacionado con el calor. Un informe amicus en nombre de un trabajador indocumentado que sufrió una pérdida del 80% de la capacidad pulmonar debido a la exposición tóxica relacionada con el trabajo. La cuestión en la apelación era si el tribunal de primera instancia debería haber declarado un juicio nulo después de informar al jurado del estado de indocumentado del demandante, en la creencia errónea de que era relevante para su elegibilidad para un trasplante de pulmón. Un reclamo administrativo en nombre de los trabajadores de la fresa por salarios no pagados y comidas y descansos perdidos. Este caso se resolvió en 2014. Un reclamo administrativo individual en nombre de un trabajador agrícola despedido en represalia por quejarse de violaciones de pesticidas. Una demanda colectiva que busca daños por acoso de origen nacional en una planta de secado de frutas cerca de Corning, California. Un supervisor abusivo usó insultos étnicos y amenazó con llamar a ICE para intimidar a los trabajadores. Los demandantes nombrados fueron despedidos cuando se quejaron de este maltrato. Este caso se resolvió en 2014. Una acción de clase por pago de horas extras atrasadas, violaciones de comidas y descansos, y costos no reembolsados en nombre de más de 170 trabajadores lecheros que trabajaron hasta 16 horas por día, 6 a 7 días a la semana y tuvieron que pagar por su propio equipo. Estos trabajadores no recibieron compensación por horas extras y solo se les permitió un descanso de media hora sin pagar por día. Este caso se resolvió en 2014. Una acción de clase en curso que busca salarios atrasados, multas por comidas perdidas y descansos, y el reembolso de los costos relacionados con el trabajo para los empleados en la guardería cerca de San Luis Obispo, California. Una acción de clase en curso en nombre de los trabajadores de restaurantes en Morro Bay por salarios no pagados de horas extras, violaciones de comidas y descansos, primas de turno dividido y sanciones. Una acción colectiva de la FLSA en nombre de los trabajadores migrantes temporales alegando violaciones del contrato H2-A, las leyes de salarios y horas y los estándares mínimos de vivienda. Hemos recuperado más de $ 600,000 en acuerdos en este caso y seguimos litigando contra un acusado restante. Una acción de clase para el pago de horas extras atrasadas y violaciones de comidas y descanso en nombre de los trabajadores de un productor de granos y piensos en Fresno, California. Varios reclamos administrativos ante el Departamento de Empleo y Vivienda Justo por acoso sexual, agresión sexual y represalias en nombre de las mujeres trabajadoras agrícolas. Comuníquese con info @ crlaf (dot) org para obtener copias de resúmenes amicus recientes, ejemplos de alegatos o consejos y consultas sobre cualquier caso que involucre a trabajadores inmigrantes o de bajos salarios.

NOTICIAS RURALES + ALERTAS ¡Únete a nosotros en este evento especial para seguir la gran lucha por justicia! California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation is excited to invite you to this year's Luchando por Justicia recognition dinner, honoring Champions of Justice Eric Cohen, Executive Director of Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Angel Barajas, Yolo County Supervisor. This special celebration will be on Friday, September 26, 2025 beginning at 5:30pm in the Courtyard of the California Museum in Sacramento. CRLAF's annual fundraiser gala brings together and pays tribute to individual leaders and organizations committed to equity and justice by advocating for greater access to healthcare, affordable housing, safer workplaces, quality immigration services, higher education opportunities, and other critical services for California's essential workers. We look forward to sharing this special night of celebration with youth performances by mariachi Sembrando Tradiciones and Folklórico Latino de Woodland, an award-winning dinner by Cielito Lindo, and featured wines from Tierra Luna Cellars and Vintner's Diary. We thank you once again for your unwavering commitment to migrant farmworkers and rural immigrant families. Your generosity and partnership make it possible for us to deliver high-quality, client-centered legal services that empower rural communities, ensure equitable justice, and lead to systemic change that improve the political and socio economic conditions of rural residents. Please fill out the section below to purchase tickets and sponsorship opportunities . Last year, we sold out two weeks before the event, so please purchase your tickets early! ¡No lo pierdes!

Removal Defense Representation at CRLAF REPRESENTACIÓN DE DEFENSA DE DESMONTAJE EN EL VALLE CENTRAL Y CALIFORNIA DEL NORTE Programa de defensa para la eliminación de CRLAF CRLAF ofrece representación gratuita de defensa de expulsión a un número limitado de inmigrantes vinculados a nuestra región de servicio de expulsión. Estos servicios se ofrecen a través del apoyo de NextGen America, Immigrant Justice Corps y fondos estatales de California administrados por el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California (CDSS). Nuestra región de servicio de defensa de remoción incluye los siguientes condados del Valle Central y el norte de California: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kern, Lake, Madera, Mendocino, Merced, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo y Yuba. Programa de defensa para la eliminación de la red FUEL de Sacramento CRLAF fue seleccionado de la Ciudad de Sacramento liderar una colaboración de múltiples organizaciones que ofrece representación gratuita de defensa de expulsión a un número limitado de personas vinculadas a la Ciudad de Sacramento como parte de la Red de COMBUSTIBLE de Sacramento . Miembro de la red SAFE Como miembro de la Red SAFE , CRLAF está comprometida con el principio y la práctica de la representación universal para todos los inmigrantes que enfrentan deportación. Todo inmigrante que enfrenta deportación debe tener una representación compasiva y de calidad, independientemente de si el caso parece meritorio. TODOS LOS CLIENTES DE CRLAF DEBEN TENER UN INGRESOS DEL HOGAR BAJO EL 125% DE LAS DIRECTRICES FEDERALES DE POBREZA Si está buscando asistencia legal para la defensa de expulsión, llame al 916-446-7901 y deje un mensaje detallado. Si tiene preguntas sobre la Fundación CRLA y el Programa de Defensa de Remoción de la Red Sacramento FUEL, comuníquese con Katie Fleming (kfleming@crlaf.org ).

Your 2018 Impact Report: See the Impact of your donation. CRLAF 2022 Impact Report Dear Friends and Supporters, The past two years have been filled with unprecedented challenges raised by a global pandemic that has turned every aspect of our normal lives upside down and wildfires that continue to push low-wage workers into greater economic insecurity. At the same time, CRLAF has stepped up to do what is needed to protect the rights of rural Californians. Amagda Pérez, Executive Director CRLAF advocates have worked around the clock developing timely and culturally responsive information on COVID resources and fighting for worker and tenant protections, safe living conditions for H2-A workers, adequate lighting for night-time work, wildfire protections, heat illness prevention, health for all, and access to legal and other lifeline services for rural communities. We have provided legal assistance to aggrieved workers, families seeking education equity, and immigrants seeking to regularize their immigration status. We also secured release of individuals from ICE detention, defended migrants in removal proceedings, and assisted hundreds to apply for benefits that protect family unity. As we continue to respond to statewide emergencies and ensure that the most vulnerable in our communities have the protections and support that they need, we thank you for your support and shared commitment to ensuring that farm workers, other low-wage workers and their families have access to high-quality legal representation and access to equal justice. Our work has brought hope and improved the working and living conditions of countless rural families. Thank you for standing with us in our fight for justice, equity, dignity, and respect for our clients. We are proud to carry forward Justice Cruz Reynoso's legacy of service and ensure that every person has access to justice, regardless of their socioeconomic and immigration status. Respectfully, Amagda Pérez Executive Director 2022 IMPACT REPORT California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation LABOR + EMPLOYMENT PROJECT CRLAF engages in policy advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels. In 2022, we tracked more than 60 state and federal bills, and sponsored and supported legislation seeking to expand labor law protections for H-2A farm workers and other rural low-wage workers, and opposed bills which eroded or eliminated those protections. We provided written or oral communication to committees; signed on to support/ opposition letters; and held conversations with key political staff. We also monitored all new H-2A applications for large numbers of guest workers in key counties, and advocated for H-2A and US farm workers with the US Department of Labor (DOL) and California Employment Development Department (EDD). Specifically, CRLAF su pported SJR 11, AB 2183, AB 2300, SB 951, and] HR 1603. H-2A Monitoring and Advocacy: CRLAF sponsored AB 857, the "California Legal Rights Disclosure Act for H-2A Farm Workers,” that would mandate employers’ single required written notice with information on roughly two dozen California laws/regulatory protections be in Spanish. We are working with the Labor Commissioner on another draft of AB 857, to ensure farm workers are provided clear, concrete, and straightforward information on their rights prior to their start of employment. The original text would have also codified for the first time in California law H-2A workers’ right to be paid for time spent in employers' vehicles while traveling between employers' housing and field worksites. CRLAF and other advocates have pending actions to recover these stolen wages; the estimated unpaid travel time for the 25,000+ H-2A workforce in 2021 was between $50-60 million dollars. In 2022, CRLAF helped review and analyze more than 200 California H-2A job orders seeking approval for over 20,000 workers, and found that a very high percentage contain false or misleading information about housing, transportation pay, and other key H-2A job terms that violate California law. We regularly collaborate with DOL, EDD, California's Housing and Community Development agency, and other regulatory bodies to protect and prioritize the housing and labor rights of farm workers across the state. PAGA Defense: CRLAF and CRLA were the original sponsors of the Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), a unique statute providing a mechanism for enforcement of basic labor law protections. We continue to collaborate with the legislature, labor unions, and trial lawyers to defend PAGA. RURAL HOUSING PROJECT CRLAF educates rural, low-income tenants and home-owners on their rights, brings impact litigation cases, and engages in housing advocacy at the state and national levels to maintain access to affordable housing and keep our most vulnerable residents housed. In 2022, CRLAF and the California Coalition for Rural Housing successfully expanded state funding for farm worker housing through the Joe Serna Farm Worker Housing Grant Program. We also co-sponsored and supported AB 1654, Funding for Farm Worker Housing, which increases farm worker housing funds by automatically setting-aside a percentage whenever the state augments the main tax credit; and AB 2339 Emergency Shelters, which closes loopholes in cities and counties’ meeting low-income households’ housing needs, including the unsheltered, and the identification of real sites for shelters. In October 2022, CRLAF and Western Center on Law and Poverty held a biennial Housing Summit, connecting legal services advocates and local groups to discuss issues impacting our shared communities, develop solutions, and define priorities for the upcoming two-year legislative session. PESTICIDE + WORKER SAFETY CRLAF works with various partners to improve enforcement of existing pesticide and work health and safety protections and advocate for greater health protective policies to reduce exposure to pesticides and work hazards including heat, wildfire smoke, and other climate conditions threatening rural health. Legislative + Regulatory Updates: Over the past year, CRLAF supported AB 1787, which enhances lab test reporting requirements to better protect agricultural pesticide applicators; SB 1044, which prohibits retaliation against employees (with exceptions for certain job types) for refusing to work inside an evacuation zone and requires employees’ access to communication devices for emergency use; and AB 211, which increases fines for pesticide safety violations. CRLAF joined other labor advocates in successfully opposing Monarch Tractor's petition to revise Cal-OSHA regulations to allow autonomous tractor use, including on farm roads and in fields where workers are on the ground harvesting. The petition was denied because driverless vehicle technology does not yet have a proven record of reliability. Though Cal-OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard will expire at the end of 2022, CRLAF helped assure the proposal of a non-emergency, two-year regulation preserving key protections in indoor worksites and employer-provided housing to take its place. CRLAF also worked to help develop a Cal-OSHA date palm work platform safety standard, and will participate in an advisory committee over the coming year to help draft a workplace violence prevention standard and finalize an Indoor Heat Illness Prevention Standard. Preventing agricultural work inside wildfire evacuation zones also remains a CRLAF priority. In September, 2022, Sonoma County adopted an Agriculture Pass program allowing some entry into evacuation zones for animal care and irrigation, but not harvest work. Sacramento County is now developing their own program with our input. Protection from pesticide exposure: CRLAF is a plaintiff in an Earthjustice challenge regarding the use of the extremely toxic herbicide paraquat. We actively participate in the Californians for Pesticide Reform Coalition to compel the Department of Pesticide Regulation and County Agricultural Commissioners to improve pesticide regulation enforcement and language access. CRLAF has also advocated for years to tighten restrictions on use of the carcinogenic soil fumigant 1,3 dichloropropene. SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES PROJECT (SRCP) SRCP works with partners and communities to develop and implement policies addressing systemic issues of poverty, poor health faced by disadvantaged migrant farm worker and immigrants. Legislation: SRCP supported three dozen bills during the final legislative session of 2022, and sponsored SB 558, Farm Worker Climate Resilience and Adaptation Program, which would have established a farm worker task force and granting program to farm worker-serving organizations. CRLAF helped win $1.5 million to update 20-year old data through a Farm Worker Health Study. CRLAF collaborated with author UC Merced on the advisory steering committee to ensure the study’s completion in June, 2022. CRLAF prioritized the Health4All campaign, which successfully expanded Medi-Cal coverage to eligible undocumented immigrants ages 26-49. We continue to celebrate this historic win granting California’s immigrant community access to care and health coverage. This expansion will go into effect on January 1, 2024, and is in addition to the May 1, 2022 expansion for undocumented residents over 50 years of age. We look forward to continuing to provide eligibility-related education to increase immigrant enrollment. Health + Immigration Work: To prepare residents for advocacy engagements, CRLAF hosted quarterly trainings and policy briefings, as well as sent regular alert updates on shelter-in-place ordinances, housing protections, nutrition programs, DACA public charge, and state vs. federal, and other privately funded COVID-19 economic relief programs. When possible, we provided direct application assistance, since many forms must be completed online and in English. Environmental Work: Since 2015, SRCP has administered the Interim Emergency Bottled Water Project for Fresno County’s unincorporated communities of Cantua Creek and El Porvenir, providing safe drinking water to 166 rural households (over 700 residents). We work with the Water Resources Control Board to ensure uninterrupted water delivery until the County completes a permanent water system. SRCP Leadership Roles: CRLAF organizes trainings and townhalls to educate partners and stakeholders on all proposed and or realized changes in policies, the critical role of affordable and expanded healthcare access, and the health and economic injuries resulting from inequitable vaccine access and discriminatory COVID 19 relief initiatives. We participate in various education campaigns on these topics as well as provide interviews for local newspapers, and on Spanish radio and television. Over the past year, SRCP led a coalition of 12 local organizations to prioritize farm workers as essential workers, which resulted in the vaccination of thousands of individuals. CRLAF has recently served as fiscal agent for two statewide regranting programs addressing equitable access to COVID-19 care and workplace safety, and chronic drought issues faced by farm worker communities. We continue to convene the COVID-19 Farm Worker and Rural Immigrant Community Advocacy Coalition, composed of 12 farm worker and immigrant-serving organizations, and the Central Valley Legal Defense Fund (CVLDF), a group of attorneys, and local community and faith leaders dedicated to raising and providing funding for residents placed in immigration removal proceedings. CRLAF also leads and will once again draft the annual policy platform for the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund’s IHHEEL (Immigration, Health, Housing, Education, Environmental Justice and Land Use and Planning) Health and Immigration Policy Subcommittees, involving over 30 immigrant and refugee-serving Central Valley organizations. LABOR + CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION UNIT The Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Unit provides legal representation to farm workers and low-income workers in rural California ineligible for (Legal Services Corporation) LSC-program services, and who may be best represented in a class action. In 2022, the Unit handled a variety of issues and cases, including defeating a Sheriff’s motion to dismiss on a forceful eviction; filing appellate briefs with the Ninth Circuit on the issue of client employer; defending tenants in unlawful detainer cases; assisting tenants assert their rights to habitable housing; co authoring two amicus briefs and participating on a third amicus brief; litigating cases in federal and bankruptcy courts; and collaborating with partners to co-host housing clinics and address education issues affecting migrant farm worker families. Outreach Efforts: In our third round of the statewide COVID Worker Outreach Program (CWOP), CRLAF has conducted field observations, door-to-door outreach, and participated in community events to protect access to rural health and other supportive safety-net services. Advocates traveled thousands of miles to provide information on workplace protections under COVID-19, sick leave, access to testing and vaccines, housing and other related labor rights, and distributed personal protection equipment to prevent COVID-19 contagion, and wildfire smoke and pesticide related illness. We partnered with local agencies, health providers, and religious organizations to organize and host vaccination clinics. Through this project, CRLAF reached more than 20,000 Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley residents. We are currently providing financial assistance information to prevent foreclosures to low-income residents in the Sacramento Valley behind on their mortgage. In the past year, CRLAF attorneys offered training for families and local organizations on housing and employment, and co-hosted three housing and tenants’ rights clinics. Amicus Brief + Support: CRLAF co-authored an amicus brief with CRLA, Inc. on a PAGA case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Viking River Cruises v. Mariana, and partnered with CRLA, Inc. to write an amicus brief to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board in Cinagro Farms, Inc., involving a group of farm workers misclassified as independent contractors. CRLAF also participated in the drafting of an amicus brief with CRLA, Inc. on a PAGA case before the California Supreme Court in Adolph v. Uber Technologies. Current Cases: CRLAF has been grateful for the opportunity to expand our housing work by recently bringing on a Housing Law Attorney and Legal Fellow, and training new attorneys. We continue prioritizing class actions that QLSPs are unable to take, and serving workers and tenants who do not qualify for QLSP services. These cases involve farm workers experiencing labor violations such as unpaid overtime or full hours worked, failure to provide meals, rest periods, and legal documents including leases, paystubs, and letters of employment. Cases also include tenants experiencing inhumane housing conditions in apartments, migrant labor camps, or mobile home parks, unlawful detainers, and improper evictions. Most cases are overshadowed by threats to our clients’ immigration status as a way of forcing compliance. Last winter, CRLAF joined the Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition. As the only legal aid in this coalition, we provide information on tenant rights and how to assert them, with particular focus on the eviction process and the right to remain in one's home. We are excited about additional opportunities this partnership will bring, including identifying impact housing and employment cases. CRLAF is currently investigating two housing cases involving housing provided to migrant farm worker families, and a landlord who failed to provide habitable housing and threatened their tenant with deportation, based on their perception of the tenant’s immigration status. Finally, CRLAF is investigating serious education inequities faced by migrant students and English learners, looking into possible redress with a few partners, and considering litigation. The Unit aims to file 2-3 class actions or impact litigation cases in 2023. CITIZENSHIP + IMMlGRATION PROJECT CRLAF’s team of DOJ accredited representatives, attorneys, paralegals, and advocates worked tirelessly over the past year to provide education and outreach, consultations, applications for affirmative immigration relief, and technical assistance for service providers. We continued to support community college students and educators by offering legal services, presentations, and trainings, and have recently taken a regional administrator role, working with community-based organizations to provide DACA and Naturalization application filing fee assistance to community members throughout the Central Valley. Removal Defense Project: The need for removal defense services has grown exponentially, due to pro se hearings being scheduled for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition to full-scope representation, many of our services over the past year were focused on developing and providing pro se assistance, such as covering dockets through the Attorney of the Day program, staffing detained consultation sessions, and providing limited-scope assistance. The new Immigrant Health Equity Project manages CRLAF’s Public Charge hotline, providing individualized legal counsel on health access, as well as legal and education services on immigrant access to healthcare and public benefits, with a focus on pandemic relief programs, Public Charge policies, and Medi-Cal expansions. Sacramento Family, Unity, Education, + Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants: The City Council of Sacramento established the Sacramento Family Unity, Education, and Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants in 2017, for which CRLAF continues to serve as fiscal lead. The FUEL Network is a robust collaborative of over 80 Sacramento community-based organizations, legal services providers, volunteer attorney groups, labor unions, faith-based groups, and educational institutions providing critical informational and legal services to immigrant communities. COMMUNITY ADVOCACY + SPECIAL PROJECTS CRLAF reinforced its commitment to protecting the health and well-being of low-income, essential workers and their families, as one of the few organizations conducting outreach and field monitoring throughout the pandemic. Our regular community presence encouraged workers’ confidence to reveal various civil rights violations, which were brought to our Immigration and Litigation Units to assess eligibility for benefits and representation. Over the past year, CRLAF uncovered a number of education inequities exacerbated under pandemic conditions, which impact the education of immigrant and/or English Learners, especially the children of migrant farm workers. CRLAF has seen districts discontinue transportation for rural areas; while California law does not guarantee the right to school transportation, it has greatly affected farm worker parents who start work before sunrise, and are unable to take their children to school on time. This has resulted in students being transported to and from school in overcrowded and unsafe vehicles and/or missing school. Migrant farm worker families living in labor camps must also leave every winter due to mandatory camp closures. These migrant students face being dis-enrolled from their schools as they are unable to return before the start of the spring semester; final exam dates that are scheduled a day before their move out date from the camps; and not obtaining all of the appropriate credits when they leave the state. CRLAF has also recently encountered major habitability problems, including entire apartment complexes, mobile homes parks, and labor camps with infestations of cockroaches, mice, mold, broken windows, torn screens, unsafe plumbing, and dirt floors. Residents have expressed concern about racist landlords and housing managers. We continue to hold Know Your Rights presentations and distribute informational flyers to labor camps, work crews, housing projects, churches, and local events to educate and work with our communities toward greater legal justice. This past year brought both exciting opportunities and challenges for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. We launched several ambitious statewide projects, while pivoting to address emerging needs in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, other natural disasters, and policies that do not prioritize, nor consider our rural, underserved communities. In 2023, we will build upon the accomplishments of our past 41 years to continue protecting California’s farm workers, rural low-wage workers, and migrant families’ rights and access to legal justice. Please join us in assisting rural Californians access equal justice. Support like yours expands civic participation and helps to create a more just future for all Californians, regardless of their immigration and socioeconomic status. THANK YOU DONORS + SUPPORTERS CRLAF is ever grateful to our grantors, as well as individual supporters, without whom our work would not be possible. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to all of those who gave throughout 2022. All gifts are directly invested into the communities we serve, expanding rural, migrant and mixed-status families' access to services and justice through legal action, advocacy, and education.

TRABAJO + EMPLEO Una voz para los trabajadores de bajos salarios en el capitolio estatal El proyecto Trabajo y Empleo lleva a cabo investigaciones orientadas a políticas y encuestas de campo para trabajadores agrícolas, realiza actividades de promoción legislativa y administrativa en las áreas de salario y hora, seguro de desempleo y ley de trabajadores agrícolas, tanto a nivel estatal como federal, y proporciona capacitación, técnicas asistencia y apoyo para programas de servicios legales de California. Los principales objetivos del proyecto son: Ampliar las leyes laborales estatales que afectan los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas y otros trabajadores de bajos salarios. Para mejorar y reformar los esfuerzos estatales de aplicación de la ley laboral, particularmente en la economía sumergida Asumir un papel de liderazgo al oponerse a los esfuerzos legislativos o reglamentarios para debilitar los derechos laborales nuevos o existentes que afectan a los trabajadores de bajos salarios, y especialmente a los trabajadores agrícolas y sus familias. Para llevar a cabo investigaciones relacionadas con políticas públicas y legales, educación y esfuerzos de medios Iniciar la capacitación de defensores, abogados y personal de agencias sobre las leyes laborales patrocinadas por la Fundación CRLA. Para monitorear las admisiones de trabajadores invitados en California bajo el programa federal H-2A Para participar en los esfuerzos nacionales de promoción en torno a los programas de trabajadores invitados y la legalización de los trabajadores agrícolas. Las actividades no relacionadas con el cabildeo del proyecto son, y han sido durante muchos años, generosamente apoyadas por la Fundación Rosenberg. CRLAF’s Recently Sponsored and Supported Labor + Employment Legislation 2023 AB 636 (Kalra): CRLAF sponsored this landmark legislation, enacting greater language access and labor rights education within the agricultural workforce and among H-2A employees. This bill mandates that the Labor Commissioner compile into one single written notice key information on roughly two dozen state laws and regulatory protections employers are required to provide H-2A workers in Spanish on their first day of employment. CRLAF also sponsored the previous version of this bill, AB 857 (Kalra). [Chaptered Bill Text .] 2017 AB 638 (Caballero): sponsored by CRLAF and partners Central American Resource Center and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, this bill requires that all persons engaged in providing advice, counsel, and direct representation have the proper legal training and accountability, to ensure that immigrants receive high-quality legal assistance and are not put at risk of receiving false or misleading information, removal from the United States, or being separated from their families. [Chaptered Bill Text .] SB 295 (Monning): CRLAF sponsored this bill which creates greater transparency in the sexual harassment prevention training required for farmworkers by SB 1087 (Monning, 2014) and addresses recent concerns about non-compliance by some Farm Labor Contractor (FLC)s. The legislation requires that FLCs annually disclose materials utilized to train workers in sexual harassment prevention, and report to the Labor Commissioner the total number of farmworkers they trained in the previous calendar year. The Labor Commissioner then aggregates each year’s reported numbers and publishes the statewide total to the Commissioner's website. [Chaptered Bill Text .] 2015 AB 970 (Nazarian): CRLAF sponsored this bill which closed gaps in the Labor Commissioner’s legal authority that precluded the Commissioner from issuing citations to employers for two increasingly common underground economy wage theft violations: illegal deductions made from workers’ wages for tools or equipment, and payment of sub-minimum wages below levels mandated by applicable local ‘living wage’ laws. AB 970 increased the likelihood that more workers victimized by unscrupulous employers will recover their stolen wages as a result of a Labor Commissioner workforce-wide investigation and citation process for these two violations, and simultaneously reduces state costs associated with remedying these violations through individual Berman hearings or civil lawsuits. [Chaptered Bill Text . Legislative History .] AB 1723 (Nazarian): requires the Labor Commissioner, when citing for a minimum wage violation, to also determine whether workers are owed ‘waiting time’ penalties for an employer’s failure to pay all wages when due. The bill has major financial implications for farmworkers and other low-wage workers whose unpaid minimum wages are often far less than any applicable ‘waiting time’ penalties. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] 2014 SB 1087 (Monning): CRLAF sponsored this bill in response to farmworker lawsuits and administrative claims revealing shocking instances of sexual harassment, including rape, against undocumented farmworker women, that drew significant media attention. (See ‘Rape In the Fields’ (2013) NPR/Frontline/Center for Investigative Reporting ). This legislation attacks a widespread culture of sexual harassment of farmworker women by FLCs and their supervisors through a combination of mandatory annual sexual harassment prevention training and testing of licensees; annual training of their supervisors; and training of farmworkers in how to prevent, identify and report sexual harassment. The bill also makes more than a dozen other needed changes to the state Farm Labor Contractor Act, including authorizing the Labor Commissioner to take adverse license actions against sexual predators. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History.] AB 1897 (Hernández): sponsored by the state Labor Federation and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. CRLAF was a significant partner in testimony before key committees, and lobbying for passage and the bill’s signature. AB 1897 makes most California employers, including growers, jointly and severally liable for their Labor Contractors’ wage theft and worker’s compensation violations for the first time under California law. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] 2013 SB 168 (Monning): dramatically revised successorship liability law to strengthen legal protections for farmworkers against FLCs’ wage theft, which is often committed as part of a fraudulent shutdown of their contracting business. [Chaptered Bill Text and complete Legislative History .] AB 442 (Nazarian): requires the Labor Commissioner, when issuing a citation for a minimum wage violation, to also recover liquidated damages for victimized workers in an amount equal to the total amount of their unpaid minimum wages. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] SB 435 (Padilla): expands protections for California workers in five outside industries who request, but are denied, heat stress-related cool down ‘recovery periods,’ treated the same way as daily rest periods under the Labor Code: employers in the five covered outside industries are prohibited from requiring workers to perform any work during any heat stress recovery period and, if the employer failed to provide such a recovery period upon a worker’s request, they must pay the employee one additional hour of pay at their regular rate of compensation for each work day that a recovery period was not provided. Workers can pursue these claims either in court or an administrative wage claim hearing. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] SB 390 (Wright): created new Labor Code criminal penalties on employers who deduct, and then steal, workers’ paycheck withholdings, and also created for the first time in California law a state cause of action (under the PAGA, discussed below) to attack this kind of unscrupulous employer conduct. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] 2012 AB 1675 (Bonilla): imposes stiff civil penalties on persons who operate as a FLC without first securing an FLC license. Farmworkers aggrieved by actions of an unlicensed FLC can collect penalties in a PAGA civil lawsuit, provided the State of California does not pursue the violation itself. [Chaptered Bill Text .] AB 2674 (Swanson): requires employers, for the first time under California law, to provide current and former employees, or their representatives, with a copy of their employment-related personnel records, which is often a vital first step in determining the merits of a worker’s claim of retaliation. This bill was vetoed once before, and represents a victory for worker advocates ‘staying the course’ to get relief in this important area. [Chaptered Bill Text .] SB 1255 (Wright): resolved long standing conflicts over whether a worker “suffers injury” when an employer fails to provide them with a complete and accurate itemized pay statement, as required by state law. CRLAF negotiated a compromise with trial lawyers, unions, and business interests which provides the courts with a better roadmap in how to interpret employer violations of these critical worker protections in the future. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .] 2011 AB 243 (Alejo): enacted over the strong opposition of California agriculture, requires FLCs to provide their farmworker employees with an itemized wage statement which discloses all of the names and addresses of every entity (i.e., growers or other FLCs) to whom the farmworker was supplied during the pay period. [Chaptered Bill Text .] AB 240 (Rodriguez): requires the Labor Commissioner to allow workers not paid the minimum wage to recover minimum wage liquidated damages in a Berman administrative wage claim hearing, which their parallels rights if the claim is pursued in a civil action. This is a critical advance for low-wage workers whose only avenue to redress wage theft is a Berman hearing (because their individual wage claim is too small to be taken by a private attorney or a legal services law firm). [Chaptered Bill Text .] AB 469 (Swanson): enacted an omnibus wage theft statute with many new Labor Code protections aimed particularly at vulnerable low-wage immigrant workers in the underground economy; CRLAF wrote the first draft and co-sponsored the bill with the California Labor Federation, and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). [Chaptered Bill Text .] 2004 CRLAF sponsored the Labor Code's Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which landmark legislation created a private right of action to enforce California labor law provisions previously reserved for enforcement solely by the state. CRLAF wrote the first draft and co-sponsored the original bill (SB 796) with the California Labor Federation (AFL-CIO). Employers immediately made strenuous efforts to completely repeal PAGA once it took effect. This effort fueled a budget stalemate that was only resolved after extensive negotiations that led to the enactment of a subsequent bill (SB 1809) which preserved the bulk of PAGA, while requiring administrative exhaustion before a right to sue would vest. [Chaptered Bill Text of SB 796 . Complete Legislative History of SB 796 . Chaptered Bill Text of SB 1809 . Complete Legislative History of SB 1809. ] The Financially Responsible Labor Contractor Act, SB 179 (Alarcon): sponsored by CRLAF, who also wrote the first draft, is a groundbreaking statute, opposed by dozens of employer groups in the Legislature, making entities liable when they knowingly entered into a financially insufficient contract for labor or services in five underground economy industries. A prior version was vetoed. [Chaptered Bill Text . Complete Legislative History .]

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