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NWLC In The Press

Education Department Criticized for Investigating Yale

The National Women's Law Center on Monday blasted the Education Department for investigating Yale University for potentially discriminating against men, saying the Trump administration appears hostile toward a key federal gender discrimination law.

#MeToo without class action

The justices didn’t directly address sexual harassment, which typically is fought in individual lawsuits rather than in class actions. But the ruling seems likely to strengthen the lower courts’ inclination to judge as fully in accordance...

McDonald’s workers file sex harassment claims

What is different this time, organizers say, is that all of the women bringing charges are represented by attorneys due to the defense fund’s support. More broadly, the #MeToo movement that exploded last October has...

Low-Paid Women Get Hollywood Money to File Harassment Suits

"Volunteers at the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group focused on women’s rights, have been reviewing the online complaints and providing many workers with names of lawyers who might be willing to take on...

10 McDonald’s workers file sex harassment claims

The legal efforts were organized by Fight for $15, which campaigns to raise pay for low-wage workers, and the legal costs are being covered by the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, which was launched in...

Divided Supreme Court Sides With Businesses Over Workers

Workers who want to take action against sexual harassment, pay discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and racial discrimination "may now be forced behind closed doors into an individual, costly - and often secret - arbitration process," said...