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CRLAF is a privately funded rural justice center focused serving farmworkers and low-wage laborers, regardless of immigration status. Fundación de Asistencia Legal Rural de California ABOGADOS POR LA JUSTICIA Critical Information for Immigrant and Mixed Status Families QUIENES SOMOS Arraigado en el movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas de la década de 1960 Fundación de Asistencia Legal Rural de California es un centro de justicia rural con fondos privados enfocado en servir a los trabajadores agrícolas y trabajadores rurales de bajos salarios, independientemente de su estado migratorio. Creemos justicia y dignidad no comience ni termine en un cruce fronterizo, pero son derechos humanos inalienables. Leer más... CÓMO TRABAJAMOS 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... Contact AUTORIZAR 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... ABOGADOR 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... NOTICIAS + ALERTAS Aún no hay ninguna entrada publicada en este idioma Una vez que se publiquen entradas, las verás aquí.

Free legal assistance with DACA renewals for rural California resdents DACA: Asistencia legal gratuita Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia El programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, o DACA, permite a los inmigrantes elegibles que ingresaron al país a una edad temprana sin estatus para solicitar permisos de trabajo y aplazamientos temporales de deportaciones. Hay aproximadamente 800,000 receptores de DACA; 1 de cada 4 receptores de DACA vive en comunidades rurales. Aunque no es un camino hacia el estatus legal permanente o la ciudadanía, DACA ofrece una oportunidad para que los jóvenes indocumentados salgan de las sombras, se esfuercen por alcanzar sus sueños y aumenten sus contribuciones a la vitalidad social y económica de nuestra sociedad. CRLAF ofrece asistencia legal gratuita con las renovaciones de DACA y también ofrece talleres críticos Conozca sus derechos a los campus universitarios y organizaciones comunitarias en toda la zona rural de California. Para obtener más información sobre los próximos talleres, cómo programar una cita y sobre las becas para las tarifas de renovación de DACA, consulte nuestras publicaciones recientes a continuación. Para hablar con un miembro del equipo, llame al 916-446-7901. Aún no hay ninguna entrada publicada en este idioma Una vez que se publiquen entradas, las verás aquí.

Your 2018 Impact Report: See the Impact of your donation. Your 2020 Impact Report At a time when our clients are the most vulnerable, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) advocates have stepped up from day one to do what is needed to protect the rights of rural communities. Within hours of Governor Newsom announcing the shelter-in-place mandates, CRLAF legislative advocates and project directors drafted a letter to the Governor calling for workplace protections for farmworkers and financial assistance for families affected by COVID-19 but ineligible for federal stimulus funds. When Governor Newsom announced that he was making available $75 million to provide disaster relief benefits for undocumented individuals, CRLAF was selected as one of the twelve organizations to screen individuals for Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants (DRAI) benefits and disburse close to $4.6 million to families in the eight northern counties of the Central Valley. CRLAF's letter to the Governor was shared with private funders who have also selected CRLAF to disburse an additional $400,000 to undocumented families. In these unprecedented times, CRLAF has stood out as a relentless leader, change agent, and premier community-centered legal service provider committed to championing the rights of essential workers and their families. As we advocated for greater protections for our clients, we also took measures to protect our staff by closing our doors to the public while continuing to provide all services remotely. Even though the doors to our physical offices are temporarily closed to the public, CRLAF advocates have been working around the clock developing timely and culturally responsive information on COVID-benefits, Know Your Rights, and other important resources; advocating for worker and tenant protections, safe living conditions for H2-A workers, night lighting, wildfire protections, heat illness prevention, Health For All, and access to legal services; providing legal assistance to aggrieved workers and immigrants seeking to regularize their immigration status; and advocating to secure the release of individuals from ICE detention centers. You will see from the report below that CRLAF advocates have done truly amazing work on behalf of rural poor families. It is an honor for me to work alongside these advocates for justice, whose skill and understanding about the issues that affect rural communities has earned them the respect and admiration of both our clients and the legal services community. It is also a privilege to work with clients who motivate us with their resilience and hope for a better tomorrow. As we continue to respond to this global pandemic and ensure that the most vulnerable in our communities have the protections and support that they need, we thank you for your support. CRLAF is stronger because of our commitment to shared leadership, caring for and supporting each other, especially in the midst of such unforeseen challenges that threaten everyone's health and well-being, and our passion for justice. Thank you for standing with us; we are stronger together. Respectfully, Amagda Pérez Executive Director Dear Friends, 2020 has been filled with unprecedented challenges raised by a global pandemic that turned every aspect of our normal lives upside down and wildfires that have pushed low-wage workers into greater economic insecurity. At the same time, immigrant communities are still continuously targeted and live in constant fear of being forcibly separated due to the Trump Administration's relentless attacks on immigrants and communities of color. Amagda Pérez, Executive Director 2020 IMPACT REPORT California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation CITIZENSHIP + IMMIGRATION Immigration Relief The 2019-2020 fiscal year required our team to be exceedingly nimble given the unique and serious needs that arose within the communities we serve due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our team worked extremely hard to tackle each challenge and be a source of reliable information and assistance during this unprecedented time. The Immigration Unit’s collective work is organized across four different project areas: Citizenship and Immigration, Removal Defense, San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment, and the Sacramento FUEL Network. This report reviews each project area’s accomplishments and programs over the past year and discusses our vision for the year to come. COVID-19 Response As soon as California and its local governments began issuing shelter-in-place orders, our team developed and published a comprehensive guide to help undocumented and immigrant community members navigate the public health crisis. We updated this guide on a daily basis, made it available on the CRLAF website in both English and Spanish, and circulated it widely among our partners and networks throughout the Central Valley. CRLAF was 1 of 12 organizations selected by the state of California to administer a $75 million relief fund, the Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants (DRAI), to undocumented immigrants who were not eligible to receive the federal government’s CARES Act relief. In the span of only 2 months, over 100 staff members, temporary hires, and volunteers processed over 9,500 DRAI applications and distributed over $4.5 million of $500 payments to 9,173 individuals in 8 Central Valley counties. We also developed other partnerships and established our own Farm Worker Relief Fund to distribute additional, much-needed relief funds to 485 families including individuals who did not receive either CARES Act or DRAI relief. Removal Defense Our removal defense work includes direct representation in detained and non-detained court cases as well as the coordination of the Sacramento Attorney of the Day Program at the Sacramento Immigration Court. The AOD program is only the second such program in the nation, providing a vital consultation and advice service for individuals without prior representation. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our removal defense casework abruptly shifted focus toward more detained work. Our team took on the representation of 19 detainees, securing release and/or relief for 7 of them. Several of our detained clients that were released are still working with our attorneys toward relief in immigration court. Representation for each of these individuals was accomplished remotely through 30 minute-at-a-time telephone calls often with poor reception. Court hearings were also conducted via phone. LABOR + EMPLOYMENT CRLAF supported a number of critical measures that advanced worker protections in several areas: SB 1383 (which extends unpaid family leave protections to workers employed by employers of 5 or more); AB 2043 (which we tried to amend to provide private enforcement of CAL-OSHA COVID-19 guidances in agricultural occupations, but which was watered down by the author); AB 3053 (which creates an online portal for filing of wage claims); AB 3075 (which requires disclosure of whether any officer or director of a limited liability corporation has outstanding judgments for unpaid wages); and SB 1257 (which extends CAL/OSHA protections to household domestic workers). Our major affirmative legislative effort was sponsorship of SB 1102 (Monning), which was not signed by the Governor. The bill would ensure that all H-2A farm workers admitted into the state of California are informed about fundamental labor, housing, health and safety and other California laws that protect them. All H-2A employers will be mandated by SB 1102 to disclose these protections in writing, in Spanish, on the workers’ first day of work. The bill is the culmination of our advocacy (and watchdog role) in monitoring deficiencies in the H-2A program in this state. No other state has enacted such a law to date. PESTICIDE + WORKER SAFETY Key achievements for 2020 include enactment of a regulation for lighting of night-time agricultural work, bringing forward the practice of granting permits for harvest work within fire evacuation zones in Sonoma county, and improving language access at County Agricultural Commissioners’ offices. Protection from COVID-19 in agricultural and food processing workplaces CRLAF has been working with community based organizations and other advocacy organizations to increase COVID-19 protections for farm workers. Through technical review of newly issued guidelines and research, advocating for increased enforcement, occupation-specific case reporting and development of a COVID-19 specific regulation that includes fieldworkers and packing house workers. After months of work, on September 17, 2020 the Cal-OSHA Standards Board unanimously approved a petition for development of an emergency regulation for protecting workers from COVID-19 hazards. CRLAF will provide input on the rapid development of an emergency standard. Protection of Agricultural and other outdoor Workers from Wildfire Smoke As wildfires increased in size and frequency, a growing number of farmworkers and other outdoor workers were made to continue working in very smoky conditions without any respiratory protection or training. After petitioning the OSHA Standards Board, an emergency regulation was developed and approved in July 2019. The new regulation requires training of outdoor workers in health effects of smoke exposure, rescheduling or relocating work sites to less smoky conditions when possible, and provision of N95 respirators when the air is unhealthy because of wildfire smoke. Last year we learned that Sonoma county was granting permits for grape harvest and other agricultural work within fire evacuation zones. We obtained copies of these permits through a public records request and shared this information with Cal-OSHA, Sonoma county worker advocates and the press. During the fire season this year, many farms permitted their farmworkers to continue harvesting despite Sonoma county’s evacuation zone orders. HEALTHY + SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES COVID-19 Rapid Response, and Recovery Efforts The Sustainable Rural Communities Project was at the forefront of CRLAF’s COVID-19 rapid response relief efforts. In April 2020, CRLAF received a $50,000 grant from the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund to provide pro bono legal consultations to workers whose employment was affected by COVID-19, and to issue $20,000 in relief grants to mixed-status households in the San Joaquin Valley who were ineligible for the CARES Act stimulus and unemployment insurance benefits. In April 2020, we were also granted $250,000 from the The California Endowment to conduct a COVID-19 emergency relief re-granting program to statewide CBOs working on the ground with disproportionately impacted farmworkers. Staff developed and implemented the re-granting program funding 10 CBOs to conduct outreach education, resource allocation and emergency relief. In May 2020, CRLAF convened a virtual meeting with state agencies and our partner CBOs to identify needs and address solutions related to testing, healthcare, food distribution, housing, income support, childcare, transportation and worker safety and protections. Health-4-Kern CRLAF is providing support and resources to the collaborative, Health-4-Kern’s activities to expand health services to all; we are also providing technical assistance on key immigration issues, such as the proposed federal changes in the definition of public charge, and COVID-19 relief initiatives. A fact sheet on the remaining uninsured in Kern County was developed and distributed to Health4Kern partners with estimates of immigrant and undocumented uninsured, coverage and services currently available, and options for expanding care and coverage at clinics and Kern Medical Center. The fact sheet was developed to accurately represent community needs, data and viable solutions and resources. Strategies for expanding coverage for undocumented farmworkers were also developed, but without reliable data, it was hard to estimate specific needs and costs in Kern County. Health4Kern partners then developed an action plan for expanding care and coverage for the uninsured in early 2019. Health4Kern also worked alongside regional and statewide efforts to expand Medi-Cal eligibility to undocumented young adults aged 19-26. In January 2020, this legislation passed. That month the Governor’s budget also included expanding Medi-Cal eligibility to undocumented seniors ages 65 and over. However, the Governor's May revision dropped the planned expansion for seniors due to the COVID-19 emergency. Finally, CRLAF recently prioritized and led a budget request to update a 20-year old study of farmworker health data. We gained final approval in the state budget for a 3-year study in the amount of $1.5 million. This data will be used to inform policy and demonstrate the severe inequities rural immigrants face, strengthening our argument for stronger health and safety protections for all client communities. Safe Drinking Water Since 2015, our team has administered an Interim Emergency Bottled Water program to the two unincorporated farmworker communities in western Fresno County with over 700 residents. We continue to advocate with the residents of Cantua Creek and El Porvenir for a permanent solution to the communities' need for clean, safe drinking water. We also work with California's Water Resources Control Board to ensure both communities continue to receive uninterrupted bottled water delivery until a permanent solution is reached. Dreamers-in-Action: Building Community Capacity This past year, SRCP hosted two Dreamers-in-Action Fellows (a.k.a. the Health, Immigration & Census Fellows). The fellows effectively promoted access to immigration relief and information about immigration laws to the rural poor while engaging in outreach and education related, but not limited to: Medi-Cal, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), local safety-net programs, and the 2020 Census. The fellows also advanced CRLAF’s regional efforts and collaborated with our Citizenship + Immigration Department on: (a) increasing the number of qualified legal permanent residents who apply for U.S. citizenship, (b) providing resources to help them with the naturalization process, and (c) encouraging them to become more fully civically engaged. SAN JOAQUIN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Immigration and Health Law Project The San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment Project’s work centers around the complex intersection of health rights, public health, immigrants’ rights, and immigration law. During this fiscal year, we focused especially on providing immigration legal services, advocacy, education and outreach, and legal training. We also provided technical assistance to other community partners addressing two major challenges facing immigrant communities: the administration’s new public charge rule and the COVID-19 pandemic. This health and economic crisis has caused immigrant communities to confront various difficulties in regards to access to health care and testing, eligibility for public benefits, limited disaster relief options, and workers rights. COVID-19 Response To remedy the chilling effect on public benefits enrollment created by the new public charge, CRLAF focused on community education, outreach and direct services. We spent the second half of this fiscal year ensuring that our public charge messaging was consistent with parallel messaging about how the pandemic has affected immigrant access to health care and social services, and what services immigrant communities legally have to access, regardless of immigration status. Additionally, we provided regular immigration legal services to students, families and staff at Delta College and survivors of crime at a women’s center. Most of CRLAF’s immigration cases in this region are humanitarian cases, such as U visa, T visa, or VAWA applications. Currently, from San Joaquin to near Fresno county, CRLAF is the only organization taking these types of cases at no cost. Most of the individuals we serve do not have the means to hire a private attorney. There is a huge unmet need for attorneys to take on humanitarian aid cases pro bono in these regions. We plan to continue finding support for such work moving forward. LABOR + CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION Over the past year, we recovered over $450,000 in back wages and penalties through settlements of several wage and hour cases. We have also provided remote outreach and know-your-rights presentations on housing and employment. As part of our outreach work, this team created many infographics detailing how workers can access critical safety-net supports, including access to healthcare, food banks, and information on workers rights and protections under California law. To address the COVID-19 related housing crisis and forthcoming wave of evictions, we are putting energy toward the creation of a remote legal aid housing clinic to assist mixed-status families, specifically around the Sacramento and Fresno regions. The team continued working on its case docket, including three class action cases: two H-2A cases and one case representing nursery workers. The team was also able to resolve two employment cases and two housing cases representing farmworkers and dairy workers. We collaborated with two other organizations on a brief submitted to the California Supreme Court titled Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc. In it, we urged the Court to find that the premium pay under Section 226.7 are wages and must be included on wage statements and paid in full when an employee quits or is discharged. A decision finding otherwise chisels into the remedial protection frame worker existing for over a century, creating a crack in the foundation of protections supporting employees rights. We joined the amicus brief submitted to the California Supreme Court in Vazquez, et al., v. Jan-Pro Franchising International. The issue in Vazquez—whether Dynamex’s ABC test applies to the misclassification of janitors as franchisees—applies to our clients and is a similar tactic used by growers to avoid liability. Both of these cases are pending. We also joined the amicus brief submitted to the district court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Castillo, et al., v. Whitmer, et al., regarding an order issued by the Governor of Michigan requiring employers to test all farmworkers and migrant housing camps to test all residents for COVID-19. Growers found a couple of farmworkers to sign on as plaintiffs and challenge the Order as discriminatory towards Latinos. Both the district court and the Sixth Circuit denied the grower’s motion for preliminary injunction. The outcome of this case would have impacted other states’ orders protecting the safety and health of farmworkers. The case has been dismissed. Finally, the team intervened in City of Huntington Beach v. State of California with Western Center on Law and Poverty to support the State against Huntington Beach’s challenge to two key pieces of house legislation. These two pieces declare that cities must accommodate high density housing. Huntington Beach challenged the State’s power to enforce this housing element law against them and other charter cities.

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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.

¡Luchando por Justicia! DATE + LOCATION Friday, September 29, 2023 | 5:30 - 8:30 PM California Muse um 1020 O St. Sacramento CA, 95814 REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED Please contact Rebekah Sophia (rsophia@crlaf.org ) or Amagda Pérez to be added to the guest list. E VENT DETAILS Please join us in celebrating California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation at this fall’s Luchando Por Justicia! Luchando por Justicia brings together and pays tribute to individuals and organizations committed to hel ping rural Californians gain access to healthcare, safer and healthier neighborhoods and workplaces, educational opportunities, quality immigration and naturalization services, workers’ rights, and other essential legal services. This year, we have the honor and privilege of recognizing education equity and racial justice attorney, Deborah Escobedo, and Vice Mayor for the City Sacramento, Councilmember Eric Guerra! Farm to table dinner presented by Chef Ramiro Alarcón of Cielito Lindo, with hosted bar , music by Rondalla Group, Sacramento Voces Románticas, and dance performance by Kalpulli Maquilli Tonatiuh. Individual tickets, ad forms for our program, and event sponsorship may be purchased at the "Register Here" link above. We thank you once again for your continued interest and dedication to our cause in supporting farmworkers and migrant families across the state of California. You're invited to California Rural Legal Foundation's Luchando por Justicia event!

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

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Critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. ACERCA DE CRLAF California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) and the Sacramento Family Unity, Education, and Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants are committed to supporting and serving immigrants throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and have compiled critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. We will continue updating this document throughout the pandemic as much of this information is rapidly changing on a daily basis. Eng/Esp-Información en Medi-Cal para inmigrantes (2024) Coronavirus Resources (2020) Recursos de Coronavirus (2020) Julio 2020 COVID-19 Recursos é Informacion Más > Hemos recopilado información importante y recursos para ayudar a las comunidades migrantes a navegar este tiempo difícil. Continuaremos actualizando este documento durante de la pandemia, puesto que mucha de esta información cambia constantemente. (actualizado a partir del 20 de julio de 2020) April 2020 Salubridad Laboral Video En Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre sus derechos como trabajador de California, sus derechos al salario mínimo, sobretiempo, descansos, no han cambiado. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights July 2020 COVID-19 Resources and Information Read More > Critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. We will continue updating this document throughout the pandemic as much of this information is rapidly changing on a daily basis. (updated July 20, 2020) April 2020 SDI en California Video en Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre que es el Seguro de Discapacidad disponible para los trabajadores de California, sin importar su estatus legal. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights April 2020 Derechos de los Trabajadores Video En Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre sus derechos como trabajador de California, sus derechos al salario mínimo, sobretiempo, descansos, no han cambiado. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights April 2020 Dispensario de Comida Video En Español > Esta infografía le explica cómo encontrar dispensarios de comida (food banks) por internet cercas de usted. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights

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CENTRO DE APOYO A LA AYUDA LEGAL Brindar asistencia técnica a One California Contractors and Subcontractors y a IOLTA QLSPs Soporte técnico gratuito para One California Contratistas y Subcontratistas CRLAF ofrece capacitaciones en persona, seminarios web y asesorías de práctica sobre varios temas de leyes de inmigración, incluyendo Naturalización, DACA y libertad condicional anticipada, visas familiares, VAWA, Visa U, SIJS y asilo. Además, CRLAF brinda consultas específicas de casos y asistencia técnica en cualquiera de estas áreas. Se recomienda a los contratistas y subcontratistas de California que buscan consultas específicas de casos o asistencia técnica que envíen un correo electrónico a CRLAF a ltta@crlaf.org . Como un Centro de Apoyo financiado por IOLTA de California, CRLAF proporciona asistencia técnica gratuita a QLSP financiados por IOLTA. Nuestro enfoque principal está en los problemas rurales pobres con experiencia sustancial en las áreas de derechos civiles y humanos, inmigración basada en la familia, VAWA, visas U, visas T, naturalización, educación, trabajo y empleo, salud de trabajadores agrícolas, vivienda rural, pesticidas y seguridad de los trabajadores La Fundación CRLA brinda una amplia gama de servicios a programas de servicios legales y sus clientes, que incluyen: Consulta sobre casos individuales, incluidos análisis legales, desarrollo de estrategias y otra asistencia técnica relacionada y apoyo de defensa Representación de clientes de servicios legales referidos por proyectos calificados de servicios legales, asesoramiento conjunto de casos de violación de salarios y horas y acceso al idioma, y asistencia en litigios Capacitación a defensores calificados del servicio legal sobre temas relacionados con los derechos civiles de los inmigrantes y las poblaciones rurales pobres de California. Se imparten seminarios de capacitación sobre trabajo y empleo, inmigración y naturalización, educación y derechos de los padres y temas de salud de los trabajadores agrícolas en reuniones de grupos de trabajo, foros informativos comunitarios y conferencias del personal. Publicaciones: Folletos Conozca sus derechos en inglés y español sobre inmigración y los derechos constitucionales de los inmigrantes, AB 540 y acceso a la universidad para jóvenes inmigrantes, pesticidas, derechos de los trabajadores, un manual de mejores prácticas sobre cómo lidiar con el acoso en el lugar de trabajo y la elegibilidad de los inmigrantes a precios asequibles ¡La Ley de Cuidados se beneficia con nuevos diagramas de flujo! CRLAF también tiene un boletín informativo sobre viviendas y varios informes sobre pesticidas, mano de obra y empleo. Por favor llame para más información.