Health Justice

We at The Center for Community Problem Solving have designed a series of campaigns in direct response to requests from the thousands of clients, community residents, and service providers with whom we regularly partner. As central elements of each campaign, we have developed educational workshops (and accompanying written materials) that we deliver on a regular basis to diverse audiences in New York City and in other parts of the State and that we share as part of our Training Institute with people across the nation. Our current menu of health justice community education workshops includes:

• Fair & Just Workplace Workshops

Our Fair & Just Workplace Campaign – undertaken in coordination with the New York State Attorney General's Office – aims to establish living wages and safe conditions in all workplaces, while providing thorough and accessible information about the rights workers and employers currently have and the mechanisms already available to enforce those rights . R eaching out to workers, employers, and the wider public, our Workshop, written materials (including our Workers' Rights Guide ), and public awareness drives explain rights to fair wages and fair hours (promised pay, minimum wage, overtime, breaks), to Workers' Compensation, and to safe and healthy work environments. We describe available resources and ways to access those resources – including ways to engage in collective action, to negotiate with bosses and employees, to report grievances to government agencies, and to file complaints in small claims court and (with the help of lawyers) in other courts still. Specially designed versions of our Workshop deal head-on with the specific workplace rights of people with criminal records, of people with current and past drug and alcohol abuse histories, of people living with HIV/AIDS, and more. During our Workshop, we distribute pocket-size calendars we have designed to help keep reliable records of work days and weeks. Our Workshop helps everyone – workers, bosses, and the public-at-large – understand the importance of fair and just workplaces, how we all benefit from abiding by and enforcing existing laws, and why we should sensibly aim always to ratchet up minimal standards of decency in every sector of the labor market.

For more information or to schedule a workshop, please contact us at law.cps@nyu.edu or 212-998-6614.