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Welcome to the D.C. Employment Justice Center!  The EJC is a private, non-profit organization with a mission to secure, protect, and promote workplace justice in the D.C. metropolitan area.  We combine legal services, community education, organizing, and advocacy work to achieve justice for low-wage workers.

Click for our most recent annual report, newsletters, and examples of those we've helped.  We hope you'll also consider attending our annual Labor Day Luncheon!

Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act is LAW!

For over three years, the EJC has worked in coalition with over 20 organizations and unions to pass a paid sick and safe days bill to give all workers in D.C. a limited amount of paid time off from work when they are sick, need to care for a sick family member, or need to deal with a domestic violence situation.  On March 4, 2008, the effort paid off and, in a unanimous vote, the D.C. Council became the second jurisdiction (after San Francisco) to pass paid sick days legislation and the first to include protection for domestic violence survivors.  Before this bill, over 200,000 workers, mostly low-wage workers, had no paid sick time ... (more)

For more information on the EJC's Advocacy work, click here. 

PLEASE SUPPORT PAID SICK DAYS BY VISITING THE ONLINE RALLY IN SUPPORT OF PAID SICK DAYS.  You will have a chance to share your own story and to ask Congress to enact national paid sick days legislation.

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Since opening on Labor Day of 2000, the EJC has:

• provided free legal advice to 8,000 workers
• collected more than 3 million in unpaid wages and benefits
• educated over 10,000 workers about their rights and responsibilities on the job
• successfully advocated for improvements in government job training, unemployment compensation, access to D.C. government agencies for people with limited English proficiency, and so much more!

EJC Video

Windows Media (MPG) format (go to Microsoft to download Windows Media). 

Real Media format (go to www.real.com to download this player).