Administrative Coordinator (CA)
Join a dynamic team working at the forefront of the evolution and advancement of workers’ rights. You will be key administrative support for colleagues supporting plaintiffs’ employment lawyers across the country, and you will be part of a vital team ensuring that NELA members have a great experience with the organization.
NELA and the Institute seek an experienced, detail-oriented, and organized self-starter as our Administrative Coordinator. The Administrative Coordinator (AC) is responsible for supporting administrative and programmatic activities of the organizations, and for crucial database functions and report generation. This position regularly interacts with NELA/Institute team members, and is the first and main point of contact for most public inquiries as well as inquiries/requests from NELA members, donors, event registrants, and National Institute for Workers’ Rights donors/constituents.
This is a full-time, non-exempt position that is roughly 75% remote and 25% in-person in our Concord, California office. The Administrative Coordinator reports to and is under the direct supervision of the Membership Director.
Compensation: Annual Salary $58,000 to $62,000 per year, depending on experience.
Generous Benefits Package including: Employer-Sponsored Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance; All Federal Holidays, Personal, Sick, and Family/Medical Leave; Pension Contribution and Employee Sponsored 401K; and annual Professional … Read More
Representative Suzanne Bonomici Address NELA Convention Attendees
Representative Suzanne Bonamini (D-OR), one of the sponsors of the Equal Remedies Act of 2024, addresses NELA Convention attendees and urges everyone to keep up the fight to end damage caps in employment discrimination cases. Representative Bonamici asked us to reach out to members of Congress and help educate them and their staff about the harm these arbitrary limits cause workers who are seeking justice.… Read More
Chicago Attorney M. Nieves Bolaños Elected President Of The National Employment Lawyers Association
Bolaños is the first Latina to serve as board president of 39-year-old organization
Concord, Calif. – July 26, 2024 – The Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), the nation’s largest bar association whose members exclusively or primarily represent workers, has elected its officers for 2024-2025. The NELA Board is composed of 24 member attorneys from around the country. M. Nieves Bolaños, the first Latina to serve as NELA’s president, assumes the role from Carla D. Brown, the first Black woman leader of the organization. This transition represents a significant milestone for NELA, highlighting the importance of diverse representation in leadership roles within the organization and the legal community as a whole.
NELA Board:
President
M. Nieves Bolaños
Hawks Quindel, SC, Chicago, IL
First Vice President
Ben Lebsack
Lowrey Parady Lebsack, LLC, Denver, CO
Vice President of Public Policy
Mark Hanna
Murphy Anderson PLLC, Washington, DC
Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility
Bryce W. Ashby
Donati Law, PLLC, Memphis, TN
Vice President of Affiliate Relations
Deborah H. Karpatkin
Law Office of Deborah H. Karpatkin, New York, NY
Immediate Past President
Carla D. Brown
Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft, P.C., Reston, VA
Secretary
Summer H. Murshid
Hawks … Read More
NELA Partners with Syllo to Provide Exclusive Member Pricing on a Game-Changing AI-Powered eDiscovery Litigation Platform
Syllo levels the playing field for workers’ rights advocates by allowing them to leverage AI tools previously accessible only to large firms.
NELA is thrilled to announce the launch of our partnership with Syllo, a pioneering AI-powered eDiscovery tool for litigators developed by plaintiffs’ employment lawyers. Syllo enables attorneys and paralegals to use AI to organize, understand, and litigate their matters faster and more efficiently.
The partnership is a direct result of NELA members’ request for and experience with advanced eDiscovery tools and technology to enhance their firms’ performance. As part of our mission to empower workers’ rights attorneys, we strive to provide members with benefits that make a meaningful difference in their practice, including building capacity, increasing productivity, and conserving resources.
Through this partnership, NELA members receive a significant cost savings on Syllo’s cutting-edge litigation technology with capabilities including:
- Search and review eDiscovery, organize case files, and track deadlines.
- Search productions for hot documents, develop chronologies of key events, and prove up your case
- Access the NELA “Precedent Bank” with invaluable resources from your fellow NELA members.
NELA members receive 57% off on Syllo’s advanced AI tools. That means NELA membership is more than paid for in just … Read More
Appreciating Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. May 6–10 was Well-Being in Law week. Like any good lawyer, the author of this took on more than he should have and did not write this in time to publish it that week.
Living in this world is hard. Being a lawyer is hard. Being a lawyer representing people who have been sexually harassed or had their wages stolen from them is hard. It’s easy to let the difficulties of our jobs and our lives take over.
Law school does not teach you how to be a lawyer. It especially does not teach you how to deal with the stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout that comes with being a lawyer.
Dealing with stress may come naturally to you. You might fish on the weekends, vacation to other countries, or do yoga. Dealing with stress may also be as stressful as the stress itself. Yoga gives me anxiety. Vacations give me anxiety. I should give fishing a chance.
Our clients hire lawyers because we are professionals who know how to handle their problems. I have a therapist because I don’t know how to handle my own problems. I take medication because my therapist doesn’t … Read More
National Employment Lawyers Association Applauds The Equal Remedies Act Of 2024
The act would eliminate statutory damage caps and enhance protections for workers in discrimination cases
For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrea Hansen
509.306.1867
ahansen@flyingcrow.com
Concord, Calif. – May 8, 2024 – Today, in a significant milestone for workers’ rights, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the Equal Remedies Act of 2024. The proposed legislation calls for the elimination of statutory damage caps for employment discrimination in civil rights cases, and would modernize the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) to allow those who experience age discrimination to pursue compensatory and punitive damages.
The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) applauds Representatives Bonamici and Scott and Senator Markey on this important piece of legislation and strongly supports the bill to ensure workers have meaningful access to justice when they experience illegal treatment in the workplace.
“Discrimination persists in the workplace for a lot of reasons, but these arbitrary caps that take away the jury’s role in deciding how employers who violate the law are held accountable are a significant factor,” said Linda Correia, immediate past president of NELA’s board of directors. “I have represented many workers who have been harmed by these caps and am grateful … Read More
NELA Statement on FTC’s New Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses
The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) applauds the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-compete clauses, putting power back into the hands of workers to make decisions about where they work and what’s best for their families.
NELA members have been fighting coercive non-competes for their clients for decades and understand how these clauses stifle workers and limit their potential. NELA supports the FTC’s final rule, which bans new non-competes for all workers of for-profit companies and invalidates those companies’ existing non-competes, except for non-competes executed by “senior executives” before the FTC’s final rule takes effect.
NELA submitted comments supporting the proposed ban in April 2023, when it was first proposed by the FTC. In voting on the final rule, FTC Chair Lina Khan and other Commissioners noted that non-competes exploit workers, prevent competition, and limit innovation. NELA is thrilled that the FTC’s ban will give workers freedom to leave abusive workplaces and to find better jobs.… Read More
Recommitting to diversity, equity, and inclusion
In the wake of lawsuits and threats of lawsuits against Major League Baseball, Fortune 100 companies, and law firms over their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, NELA reiterates its commitment to those essential values. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are part of NELA’s core values and essential to the achievement of our mission. When applied in unison, diversity, equity, and inclusion create meaningful representation and involvement of persons with varied backgrounds, experiences, identities, and abilities in every aspect of NELA’s work, each with the opportunity to make robust contributions to the organization without discriminatory barriers. NELA champions the culture of participation and equal opportunity that is woven into the fabric of our mission and vision for workers and workplaces nationwide.
NELA encourages its members to continue to do the hard work of advancing workers’ rights and fostering diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, including their own. NELA is working with a consultant to help make its own policies and practices more inclusive and equitable and is in the process of revamping its election process and the application to run for the board of directors. Maintaining its organizational commitment to DEI, NELA will continue this work to ensure best practices and to continually … Read More
Comments on the EEOC’s Proposed Enforcement Guidance for Harassment
Charlotte A. Burrows, Chair
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Washington, DC 20507
Submitted via regulations.gov
RE: RIN 3046–ZA02, Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace
Dear Chair Burrows:
The National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”) submits these comments in support of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace (“Proposed Guidance”).[1]
As an organization that aspires to a future in which all workers are treated with dignity and respect; workplaces are equitable, diverse, and inclusive; and the well-being of workers is a priority in business practices, we are committed to reducing all forms of discrimination, in the workforce, including harassment. NELA is the largest professional membership organization in the country comprised of lawyers who represent employees in labor, employment, harassment, discrimination, wage and hour, and civil rights disputes. NELA and its 69 circuit, state, and local affiliates have a membership of over 4,000 attorneys who are committed to working on behalf of those who have faced illegal treatment in the workplace in both the public and private sector, including those facing harassment in the workplace. NELA has filed numerous amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts … Read More
Comments Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees
Submitted via www.regulations.gov
Re: National Employment Lawyers Association’s Comments
Regarding RIN 1235-AA39 – Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees
Dear Ms. DeBisschop:
This letter provides the Department of Labor (DOL) with the collective comments of more than 1,500 members of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and its 69 affiliates concerning the proposed changes to the regulations applicable to executive, administrative, and professional employees (“the EAP exemption”) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
NELA is the largest professional membership organization in the country comprised of lawyers who represent employees in labor, employment, wage and hour, and civil rights disputes. Our mission is to advance worker’s rights and serve lawyers who advocate for equality and justice in the American workplace. NELA and its 69 circuit, state, and local affiliates have a membership of over 4,000 attorneys who are committed to working on behalf of those who have faced illegal treatment in the workplace in both the public and private sector, including employer violations of federal wage and hour laws. NELA has filed numerous amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts regarding the proper interpretation of … Read More
Comments Concerning the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)’s Proposed Rule Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles
Submitted via www.regulations.gov
Timothy Curry
Deputy Associate Director, Accountability and Workforce Relations
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Re: Proposed Rule; RIN 3206-AO56; 88 Fed.Reg. 63,862-63,885 (September 18, 2023)
Dear Deputy Associate Director Curry:
The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) respectfully submits the following comments concerning the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)’s Proposed Rule with Request for Comments, as published in the Federal Register at 88 Fed.Reg. 63,862-63,885 (September 18, 2023).
NELA is the largest professional membership organization in the country comprised of lawyers who represent employees in labor, employment, wage and hour, and civil rights disputes. Our mission is to advance worker’s rights and serve lawyers who advocate for equality and justice in the American workplace. NELA and its 69 circuit, state, and local affiliates have a membership of over 4,000 attorneys who are committed to working on behalf of those who have faced illegal treatment in the workplace in both the public and private sector. NELA has filed numerous amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts regarding the proper interpretation of federal civil rights and worker protection laws and comments regularly on relevant proposed rules. NELA also engages in legislative advocacy on … Read More
