The Center for WorkLife Law is honored to have our free legal helpline, and Co-Director Jessica Lee, spotlighted in a new book by Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. “Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life,” explores why America’s way of work isn’t working and offers solutions to make it better. We’re thrilled that Co-Director Lee is featured so prominently as a changemaker in shifting the American workplace to be more humane.

The Center for WorkLife Law is pleased to welcome Jessica Dimas as our new Reproductive Justice for Farmworkers Legal Fellow. Jessica is joining our team to advance the rights of pregnant and lactating farmworkers in California thanks to our newly awarded Agricultural Community-Based Projects grant from the Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative (PERC).

For the first time in nearly 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used its emergency suspension authority to stop the use of the pesticide Dacthal – a toxin that has been endangering pregnant farmworkers and their babies. This is one of many important steps needed for the law to finally acknowledge the dire risks farmworkers unnecessarily face, especially when they are pregnant.