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JUNTA DIRECTIVA California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public interest law firm established in 1981, based in Sacramento, with satellite offices throughout the state . CRLAF represents farm workers and other low-wage workers in rural California, and is also a State Bar-funded legal services support center providing training, advocacy and technical assistance to California’s federal legal services programs. Our litigation and policy priority areas include labor, housing, civil rights, sustainable rural communities, health and immigrants’ rights. CRLAF has successfully sponsored or co-sponsored legislation in each of these areas, including the Farm Labor Contractor Act, the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), the Employee Housing Act, Field Pesticide Posting requirements and dozens of other statutes. Equal Opportunity Employer: California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, color, religion, gender identity and/or expression, physical or mental disability, nationality, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We believe everyone has something important to contribute. Respecting individual differences is an integral part of our culture and we endeavor to make our differences work for us to achieve our mission. DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Development Associate will play a key role in supporting the organization’s fundraising efforts, with a primary focus on grant applications, reporting, communications, and public engagement activities. This position is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is excited to strengthen resources for social justice work. Position: Development Associate Location: Sacramento Capitol Office (CA) - Hybrid/Remote options Compensation : $75,000-90,000, dependent on experience Benefits: Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees (with half-paid coverage for dependents) Flexible spending accounts benefits Employer-sponsored retirement plan with an annual CRLAF contribution Generous vacation, sick leave, and holiday package Hours : 37.5 hours/Week Reports to: Director of Development Start Date: Immediate Duties + Responsibilities: Grant Writing & Tracking Research prospective funding opportunities from foundations, corporations, and government agencies. Draft, edit, and submit grant proposals and renewal requests. Track deadlines, reporting requirements, and deliverables to ensure compliance. Work with the Executive Director, Deputy Director, Director of Operations, and Project Directors to prepare for audits, site visits, and ensure compliance with CRLAF policies, grant requirements, regulations, and ethical standards. Fund Development Support Support donor communications including acknowledgment letters, newsletters, and impact reports. Support the planning and execution of high-impact fundraising and stewardship events, both in-person and virtual. Maintain the integrity and accuracy of donor data and reporting systems, including oversight of a CRM or donor database. Ensure timely, meaningful donor communications, acknowledgments, and stewardship, both in-person and through digital platforms. Compliance Support Provide leadership and support of CRLAF’s compliance with all grant and California State Bar requirements, including the coordination of any audits. Support the preparation and submission of reports, documentation, and audit materials. Maintain organized records and tracking systems for compliance and grant deliverables. Coordinate with program and finance staff to gather data and ensure timely reporting and grant deliverables. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required 1-2+ years of progressive fundraising experience, including demonstrated success with grants and individual giving. Exceptional writing and storytelling skills for both donor and public-facing content. Attention to detail and strong proofreading skills Experience with CRMs or donor databases Ability to demonstrate compassion, collaboration, trust, respect, accountability, and equity in the performance of job duties. Commitment to advancing equity, justice, and the mission of CRLAF. Preferred Qualifications: Experience in legal services, immigration, or social justice nonprofit sectors. Fluency in Spanish or another language commonly spoken in CRLAF’s client communities. Familiarity with the philanthropic community How to Apply: Please send a resume and cover letter to Jobs@crlaf.org with the subject line: Development Associate - [Your Name]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until a position is filled. FULL-TIME SUMMER LEGAL FELLOWS FOR IMMIGRATION AND WORKERS’ RIGHTS Position: Full-Time Summer Legal Fellows to assist with immigration and/or labor and employment cases Period: Approximately from May 1, 2026 to September 16, 2026 Location: Sacramento, California About Position: CRLAF seeks law students with a strong commitment to public interest and social justice to serve as California Bar Foundation Legal Aid Leader Fellows. Under the supervision of experienced attorneys, Fellows will gain practical experience working directly with clients, completing legal research, preparing briefs to support client’s claims in litigation, and preparing documents for review by USCIS and/or the immigration court. Fellows will receive training and may assist with community presentations on Know Your Rights and responding to questions on immigration and labor rights. Fellows can pick between working with the Litigation Unit and Immigration Unit. Requirements and Qualifications: The Summer Fellowship is full-time, 37.5 hours per week for 10 weeks. CRLAF offers a flexible summer work schedule to accommodate any personal needs or travel plans. Rising 2L or 3L Interest in immigration and/or labor and workers’ rights in California Demonstrated commitment to social justice and the empowerment of immigrant communities Experience working with low-income, immigrant, migrant, farmworker, non-English speaking families, and ability to engage people from all backgrounds with both patience and sensitivity when listening to clients’ stories Fluency in Spanish or locally spoken indigenous language, preferred but not required Ability to work independently, as demonstrated by a positive track record of independent decision-making Valid California Driver License, preferred but not required Willingness to remain in close communications with the California Bar Foundation about your work Stipend: The successful candidate will receive a stipend of $10,000, funded by the California Bar Foundation. Application Information: If interested, please email your cover letter, resume, and list of 3 professional references to jobs@crlaf.org . Please address the cover letter to “Hiring Committee” and write your preference for either “Immigration Summer Legal Fellow” or “Litigation Summer Legal Fellow” in the email subject line. Applications will be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled. LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR/SENIOR LEGISLATIVE ADVOCATE Position: Legislative Director / Senior Legislative Advocate (full-time, FLSA exempt positions) Location: Sacramento, California Experience: 3-5 Five+ years directly relevant legislative or litigation experience Job Categories: Senior Management; Project Director; Legislative Advocacy Start Date: Immediate Duties + Responsibilities: Reporting to the Executive Director and Deputy Director, the Legislative Director’s duties include day to day supervision of several lobbyists and advocates, as well as serving as CRLAF’s chief Labor/Judiciary lobbyist. The Legislative Director also conducts our “California Advocacy for Farm Workers” project, which advocates for undocumented farmworkers and the rights of farmworkers employed in the H-2A visa contract labor program (‘Bracero 2.0’). The Senior Advocate’s duties include all of the above responsibilities except for a supervisory role over the legislative unit. Minimum Qualifications: Significant prior experience at the senior staff level in the Legislature or as a registered lobbyist, with a history and track record of developing and successfully shepherding legislation through the legislative process. However, significant plaintiff-side litigation experience representing low-wage workers under California or federal labor, housing, civil rights or immigrants’ rights laws, with a willingness to be trained in the California legislative process, is also qualifying experience for the senior legislative advocacy role (with a track to eventual assumption of the Legislative Director position). Law degree, civil rights, community organizing, labor union, farm worker, non-profit organization, or plaintiff-side law firm experience are also desirable, as is Spanish language proficiency. Hours, Compensation, + Benefits: Salary Range: $95,000.00 - $145,000.00 Salary/year; dependent on experience Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees (with half-paid coverage for dependents) Flexible spending account benefits Employer-sponsored retirement plan with an annual CRLAF contribution Generous vacation, sick leave, and holiday package CRLAF has a 37.5 hour, 5-day work week Application Information: Please send a resume, cover letter, writing sample, and a list of at least three references to Amagda Pérez at aperez@crlaf.org . (Applicants may also wish to provide video or audio links to some of their recent substantive testimony or appearances before the Legislature, administrative agencies or the courts.) For questions, please call (916) 446-7904, ext. 101. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Position is open until filled.

CRLAF is a privately funded rural justice center focused serving farmworkers and low-wage laborers, regardless of immigration status. California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation FARM WORKER RIGHTS. HUMAN RIGHTS. Please consider CRLAF for your Year End Giving This holiday season , please stand with us to ensure that the workers who feed our nation are respected and protected. Your support makes it possible for our lawyers, policy and community advocates, and community leaders to do the critical work to represent farmworkers to face harmful and quickly changing immigration policies, challenge unlawful workplace abuses, and confront sexual harassment and discrimination. CRLAF's work is more urgent and essential than ever. Yet, we are facing an alarming decline in funding for our free and high quality legal services, legislative and policy advocacy, community education, and leadership development in underserved and underrepresented rural communities. Every case we take, every law we help pass and strengthen, and every family we support is made possible through your collective generosity. Whether you give, share this message, or encourage others to get involved, you are part of this movement. We are in this together. Juntos, podemos. Donate today and help us continue fighting for justice in the fields, in the legislature, and in our communities. Donate TODAY Red Cards Download Cards Here Supportive Resources Haga clic para recursos sobre "Conozca sus derechos" Farmworker + Immigrant Rights We are the sons and daughters of farmworkers. We believe justice and dignity are inalienable human rights, and fight for greater access for migrant farmworker and immigrant communities across the state. Read More > Press Release on Incoming Administration While many of the serious problems clients faced in the previous Trump administration may reoccur; CRLAF stands firmly with rural residents, partner organizations, legal aid providers, and other advocates to fight for family unity, justice and equity. Read More > Governor signs CRLAF’s AB 636 CRLAF celebrates the passing of its sponsored AB 636 (Kalra) and landmark legislation, creating a comprehensive legal rights disclosure notice for H-2A farmworkers in California, expanding critical information and awareness. Read More > See More News

JUNTA DIRECTIVA Virginia Villegas, Esq., Chair The Villegas Law Firm, APC Christine Brigagliano, Esq., Vice-Chair Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP Manuel Magaña Farm Worker (Retired) Richard M. Pearl, Esq. Law Offices of Richard M. Pearl Jessica Stender, Esq. Equal Rights Advocates Ricardo Torres, Treasurer Partner at The Capital Group Companies (retired) José Olivera Meta Silvia Garcia, Esq. In Memoriam (1968-2012) CRLA Foundation’s dedicated staff provides essential and crucial services to farmworkers and their families, who have been especially hard hit during the COVID-29 pandemic. Farmworkers risk their lives everyday to put food on our tables by working in hazardous conditions, including pesticide exposure, heat stress, lack of shade, and often lacking clean drinking water. Further, despite being such essential workers, farmworkers are paid low wages, lack health insurance, and even lack access to preventive care. -Virginia Villegas, Board Chair Working with farmworker communities is important, because for me, these people are my abuelos, padres, tios, tias, primos and primas. They are familia and you always take care of familia. -Ruben Chavez, Former Board Member

NUESTRO EQUIPO Amagda Pérez, Esq. | Director ejecutivo Mark Schacht │ Director Adjunto, Director Legislativo _____________________________________ Quetzali Arroyo-Pérez│ Asistente del Proyecto de Ciudadanía e Inmigración Brian Augusta, Esq.│ Director del Proyecto de Vivienda Rural Jeannie A. Barrett | Abogado Principal, Proyecto de Vivienda Rural Jessie Boas, Esq. │Fellow del Proyecto de Defensa de Remoción Vanessa Campos │Asistente del Proyecto de Ciudadanía e Inmigración Martha Chavez │ Asistente de programa, Representante acreditada parcial del Departamento de Justicia Masireh Darboe | Asistente de CWOP (COVID-19 Workplace Outreach Project), Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles Angel F. Del Valle │ Asistente del Proyecto de Ciudadanía e Inmigración Angel De La O | Coordinador del DNAF, Proyecto de Ciudadanía e Inmigración Bianca Dueñas, Esq.│ Directora del Proyecto de Empoderamiento de Inmigrantes de San Joaquín Aaron Esparza | Fellow de Vivienda, Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Carolina Estrada | Asistente de Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Katie Fleming, Esq.│ Directora del Proyecto de Defensa de Remoción Sandra Garcia │ Asistente de programa, Representante acreditada parcial del Departamento de Justicia Rosemary Gomez, Esq. │Fellow del Proyecto de Defensa de Remoción Nilsen Gómez │ Coordinadora del programa FUEL Griselda González│ Paralegal del programa FUEL Daniel Gutiérrez Contador Juan Gutierrez │Asistente de Communications Cecilia Guevara Zamora, Esq.│ Abogada del personal, Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Claudia Guzman Bogusz│ Asistente de programa Anne Katten│ Directora, Proyecto de Seguridad de Pesticidas y Trabajadores Ezra Kautz, Esq.│ Abogado del personal, Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Chelsea Lalancette, Esq. │ Abogada del personal, Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Yolanda Magaña | Asistente, Proyecto de Defensa de Remoción Jessica Martinez, Esq. │ Abogada del personal, Ciudadanía e Inmigración Verónica Meléndez, Esq.│ Directora de Litigios , Unidad de Derechos Laborales y Civiles Juanita P. Ontiveros│ Directora de Promoción Comunitaria, Proyectos Especiales y Recursos Humanos,Representante acreditado por el DOJ parcial Monica Ortega | Fellow del Proyecto Ciudadanía e Inmigración Noe Paramo│ Director del Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles, Defensor Legislativo, Representante Acreditado Parcial del Departamento de Justicia Joana Peraza Lizarraga, Esq. │Fellow y Abogada del personal, Ciudadanía e Inmigración Sergio D. Pérez│ Representante acreditado del Departamento de Justicia Eduardo Ramirez-Castro│ Director Asociado del Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles, Representante acreditado por el DOJ Clarisa Reyes-Becerra, Esq. | Directora, del Proyecto de Equidad en salud para inmigrantes Cynthia Rice, Esq.│ Coordinadora de litigios Alfredo Rivas Gómez│ Coordinador del programa FUEL Mayra Rosales | Asistente, Ciudadanía e Inmigración Rebekah Sophia│ Asociada de Desarrollos Josth Stenner-Lara | Coordinador del programs, Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles Marcus Tang, Esq.│ Director del Proyecto de Ciudadanía e Inmigración Javier Tirado│ Representante parcial acreditado por el Departamento de Justicia Armando Valdez│ Coordinador de Alcance Comunitario, Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles Nicole Zanardi, Esq.│ Abogada del personal, Proyecto de Defensa de Remoción

MANERAS DE DAR Puede ayudar a garantizar la dignidad y la justicia para todos. Usted puede hacer la diferencia Con su ayuda, defendemos a las personas más vulnerables de la sociedad: aquellas que no tienen otro campeón. Estamos exponiendo la injusticia, trabajando en la primera línea en el Capitolio del Estado y promoviendo la justicia para los trabajadores agrícolas, los inmigrantes y los pobres de las zonas rurales. Nunca tomamos honorarios legales de nuestros clientes, y no aceptamos fondos del gobierno que inhiban nuestra capacidad de servir a nuestros clientes. Confiamos en la compasión y la generosidad de personas como usted. También aceptamos donaciones tanto por teléfono como por correo. Llámenos al 916-446-7904 ext 103. De lunes a viernes de 9:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m. PST. El número de identificación fiscal federal de la Fundación CRLA es: 94-2800442 Donación en linea Haga una donación segura en línea aquí . DONATE Envíe su donación ¿No quieres hacer una donación en línea? No hay problema. Descargue un PDF de nuestro formulario de donación aquí y envíenoslo por correo a la dirección impresa en el formulario. Recibirá una carta confirmando su donación que se puede utilizar para sus declaraciones de impuestos. Amigos de CRLAF Promete una cantidad modesta cada mes, creando una fuente estable y confiable de fondos para ayudarnos a combatir el odio, enseñar tolerancia y buscar justicia. Donaciones planificadas Las donaciones planificadas son una herramienta poderosa. Cuando los socios deciden cómo se usará su dinero después de que se hayan ido, es una declaración final sobre sus filosofías y creencias. Al final, se trata del legado que eligen dejar atrás. Además, hay beneficios inmediatos de algunas opciones de donaciones planificadas. Mediante una donación planificada, los socios pueden: 1. Aumentar sus ingresos actuales o los de un beneficiario designado; 2. Reducir la responsabilidad del impuesto sobre la renta; 3. Evitar el impuesto a las ganancias de capital; y / o 4. Pasar activos a la familia y pagar menos impuestos. Los tipos de obsequios planificados incluyen: obsequios por testamento, obsequios de Revocable Living Trust, obsequios de Charitable Annuity, obsequios de Charitable Remainder Trust, obsequios de seguro de vida. Póngase en contacto con Rebekah Sophia al rebekah @ crlaf . org para más información. Regalos de acciones y valores Los valores apreciados o las acciones de fondos mutuos que ha tenido durante más de un año son excelentes obsequios de caridad. Declaración de derechos del donante Eres nuestro socio y valoramos tu contribución. CRLAF abraza la Declaración de derechos de la Asociación de profesionales de recaudación de fondos. MEET OUR PARTNERS

Photo Credit: Scientific American Cientos de niños permanecen detenidos. Cientos de padres permanecen sin representación. Muchos padres están firmando documentos que no entienden completamente, incluidos los padres que "rechazan" la reunificación con sus hijos. El acceso a abogados de inmigración con experiencia es fundamental. Las familias que buscan asilo provienen de países devastados por la guerra. Han viajado miles de millas con la esperanza de encontrar una vida mejor para sus hijos. En 2018, nuestro equipo de abogados de inmigración de habla hispana fueron a Karnes City, TX para reunir a las familias y luchar para proteger los derechos humanos de todos los migrantes detenidos. Los inmigrantes deben tener las mismas oportunidades y derechos, sin importar su raza, religión o país de origen. INVOLUCRARSE Hay formas concretas y directas en las que todos podemos luchar contra estos ataques injustos contra los inmigrantes y hacer una diferencia aquí en nuestra propia región. A veces, los actos de resistencia más importantes son los pequeños. Si está en un tren, autobús o en cualquier otro lugar y ICE o las juntas de Aduanas y Patrulla Fronteriza, debe ponerse de pie e informar a todos en voz alta que tienen derecho a permanecer en silencio, independientemente de su estado migratorio. Esto puede salvar vidas y mantener a las familias unidas. Otro acto de resistencia se puede hacer con el lenguaje que usamos. Ningun ser humano es ilegal. Repito: ningún ser humano es ilegal. El lenguaje utilizado para describir a los indocumentados ha criminalizado a los inmigrantes. Es hora de cambiar la conversación. Celebremos la belleza, el orgullo y la resistencia de los inmigrantes frente a la desigualdad y la injusticia. Todas las personas elegibles para votar deben registrarse para votar y participar en noviembre. Nuestros representantes elegidos trabajan para nosotros. Sus políticas deben reflejar nuestros valores. Si envía un mensaje de texto con "resistencia" al 50409, resistir bot lo ayudará a enviar cartas a sus representantes electos. Simplemente escriba lo que quiere decir y le enviarán un fax o una carta a su representante. La configuración inicial lleva tres minutos y luego el envío de cartas futuras lleva menos de un minuto. ¡Es una solución perfecta para aquellos de nosotros que queremos participar pero tenemos tiempo limitado! Infórmese sobre lo que está sucediendo en las comunidades de inmigrantes y, una vez que lo sepa, cuénteles a los demás. Esta administración cuenta con que no prestemos atención. Dona a organizaciones locales de asistencia legal como la California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, las organizaciones en el terreno que representan a los inmigrantes. CRLAF defensores & abogados

Your 2018 Impact Report: See the Impact of your donation. Your 2019 Impact Report SEE THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION Hover over each block to learn more. Workers' RIGHTS Advocacy Workers' RIGHTS Advocacy represented 1,420 low-wage Workers in class action litigation DACA 350+ Dreamers Applied for DACA Renewal Anti-TRAFFICKING Education and outreach 1,428 Farm workers learned to identify signs of trafficking and where to find help Bills Sponsored and Enacted into law 9 bills to expand affordable housing, protect workers' rights & immigrant rights. Clean Drinking Water Clean Drinking Water 790 people in 2 farmworker towns received clean drinking water $4,250,000 stolen Wages recovered for low-wage workers Undocu-ally trainings 425+ Educators & service providers trained on how to better support immigrant students & families Rapid Response Networks Rapid Response Networks 2 Rapid Response networks established, serving Sacramento & San Joaquin Valley know your rights 3,500 people reached Emergency Family Safety Plans 435+ mixed status families received legal counsel on how to prepare safety plans in case of ICE enforcement Citizenship Citizenship 200+ people applied for Citizenship Pesticide & community Safety Advocacy to end use of 2 toxic pesticides. Achieve greater enforcement of Pesticide Use restrictions. increase protections for pesticide handlers & fieldworkers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard M. Pearl, Esq., Chair Law Offices of Richard M Pearl "I first got involved with farm workers when I started working with CRLA INC, in the in 1975. In the early 1980s when legal aid was under attack on a national level, we knew lobbying in particular. would be under attack; that's when CRLAF was born. Today, thanks to a cadre of visionary supporters, CRLAF remains privately funded legal aid program, doing incredibly important work that federally funded legal aid organizations are prohibited from doing." Rosa Armendariz Diablo Valley College Joseph Jaramillo, Esq. Housing & Economic Rights Advocates "I think that it’s difficult to pass strong protective legislation given the power and influence of big agribusinesses.That is why it is so important to have an organization like CRLA Foundation advocating for needed changes." Manuel Magana Retired Farm Worker "I started working with César Chavez in the 1970s. By the 1980s legal aid was under fire and we had to find another way to continue the important work. I am proud to have been on the forefront of creating CRLA Foundation. We have worked really hard for the rights of the farm workers for many years and still there are many things that need to change. One of the achievements in this fight is that farm workers now have access to a bathroom wherever they are working." Rosario Vásquez Community Representative Virginia Villegas, Esq. Villegas Carrera LLP "Over the years, I've seen first-hand the legislative work they engage in and the positive effects it has for low-wage workers throughout the state. CRLAF not only provides legal representation, but advocates on behalf of marginalized communities. If it were not for CRLAF these communities would not be getting the critical services they need." Please reload

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.

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 .] The project’s non-lobbying activities are, and have been for many years, generously supported by the Rosenberg Foundation.