2018-09-04T16:09:58-07:00 2017-12-31 Crosby & Kaneda CPAs LLP 1970 Broadway STE 930 Oakland CA 94612 990 2017-01-01 942783401 Legal Aid at Work LEGA 4158648848 180 Montgomery St Ste 600 San Francisco CA 94104 Howard Chen COO 2018-09-04 true Adele Kaneda P01664922 5108352727 2017 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Joan Graff 180 Montgomery St Ste 600 San Francisco CA 94104 6009356 false false X www.legalaidatwork.org X 1981 CA Legal Aid at Work is a nonprofit legal services organization that fights for the rights of low-wage workers and their communities. Its programs conduct outreach, provide direct legal services to thousands of people each year, engages in litigation, and advocate for policies that strengthen their workplace rights. 65 65 49 126 0 4209098 3760225 2018160 2016579 120003 83073 -28060 -13159 6319201 5846718 30982 101330 0 3616089 4192159 36473 0 634531 1455232 1424689 5138776 5718178 1180425 128540 9399390 9749684 543416 693280 8855974 9056404 LAAWs mission is to advance justice and economic opportunity for poor and low-income people and their families at work, in school, and in the community. We fight to ensure that all workers are afforded equal and fair treatment pursuant to local, state, and federal laws. Our staff and Board believe that work and workplace conditions are critical social determinants of health and that employment is essential to self-sufficiency, affords dignity, and facilitates civic engagement. LAAW acts on these principles through a variety of strategies, including: conducting targeted community outreach and education, building the capacity of grassroots organizations, medical service providers, and community-based partner organizations around California to understand and advocate for their rights on the job and beyond. providing brief legal advice and counsel to low-wage workers through in-person legal clinics and legal telephone helplines engaging in strategic litigation to both improve the law for w false false 4366373 101330 2016579 See Federal Supplemental Information. 4366373 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false true false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 62 0 true 49 true false false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false 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Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Organization has evaluated its current tax positions as of December 31, 2017 and is not aware of any significant uncertain tax positions for which a reserve would be necessary false Annual Dinner 635910 560910 75000 55000 60228 8459 635910 560910 75000 55000 60228 8459 123687 -48687 true CASA FAMILIAR 119 W Hall Avenue San Ysidro CA 92173 237237898 501c3 6000 0 Community legal services Center for Workers Rights 2741 Fruitridge Rd Ste 5 Sacramento CA 95820 465613782 501c3 67696 0 Community legal services 2 0 Matching Grants for Law Clerks 13 27634 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used Activities of the two organizations who received grants were closely monitored by LAAW program officer to the terms in the grant agreement.The LAS-ELC also provides matching grants to student law clerks who are chosen for full-time summer positions with the LAS-ELC after an extensive interview process . 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Client Note 1 Client Note 1 - Form 990, Part IIIStatement of Program Service Accomplishments 4aLAAWs three largest legal service areas are Direct Services, Enforcement and Impact Litigation, and Outreach and Education.Direct Legal ServicesIn 2017, LAAW provided free legal information and counseling through clinics, helplines, and limited representation to thousands of low-income Californians through our Workers Rights Clinic, Wage Claim Clinic, Disability Rights Clinic, and various legal helplines, as described below, which collectively assist 2,000 to 3,000 workers across the state each year: a. Clinics:i. Workers Rights ClinicsOur Workers Rights Clinics generally operate weekday evenings in underserved communities at 10 different sites throughout California, including: San Francisco (two locations), the Berkeley/Oakland border, Fresno, Santa Ana, Sacramento/Davis, Watsonville, East Palo Alto, and San Diego, and San Bernardino. We also recently laid the groundwork to launch an eleventh Workers Rights Clinic site in South Central Los Angeles. Workers unable to attend an in-person clinic are assisted via weekly phone-in clinics. In 2017, approximately 80 law students and 103 volunteer attorneys participated in over 159 Workers Rights Clinics across the state. At each clinic, trained student counselors conduct intakes with the many clients that appear in person, confer with supervising attorneys to analyze the legal issues arising from that intake, and then provide clients with information, suggest possible solutions, and make relevant referrals as appropriate. Counselors serve an additional and important function: to inform clients when they do not have legal recourse for their problem, while acknowledging clients expressed feelings that they were not treated fairly. The Workers Rights Clinic model relies on volunteers and partnerships with law schools and community organizations. Our Workers Rights Clinic partners are U.C. Berkeleys School of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law, U.C. Hastings College of the Law, and U.C. Irvine School of Law; Stanford School of Law; the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law; the University of San Diego, the University of California Los Angeles; as well as East Bay Community Law Center; Central California Legal Services; Legal Aid Society of Orange County; and the Watsonville Law Center, the Los Angeles Black Workers Center, among others. ii. Wage Claim ClinicHeld at San Francisco and Oakland California Labor Commissioners Office locations. The Wage Claim Clinic helps victims of wage theft calculate unpaid wages and complete wage claim forms. In 2017, LAAW attorneys and approximately 39 legal advocates made 30 appearances before the Labor Commissioner at either wage claim conferences or hearings and 26 appearances before the California Uninsurance Appeals Board at unemployment insurance appeal hearings on behalf of indigent and low-wage workers and recently unemployed or disabled workers, successfully secured benefits in 96% of the cases. The wage hearing appearances resulted in favorable judgments, totaling nearly $313,281.27. Several other claims were resolved through negotiated settlements, which produced a total of nearly $156,762.26 in monetary damages to workers for wage and hour violations. In 2017 the Wage Program continued its new project to assist construction workers record mechanics liens on properties when they are underpaid or not paid at all, for the work they perform.iii. Workers Rights Disability Law Clinic: Held at the Ed Roberts Campus, a universally-accessible transit-oriented disability services hub in Berkeley. The Workers Rights Disability Law Clinics services are tailored to the needs of clients with disabilities, who receive information, evaluation, advice, and representation when appropriate, on matters regarding reasonable accommodation and disability-based discriminatory treatment or practices. iv. Legal HelplinesIn addition to the clinics, LAAW operates three legal helplines:(1.)The Chinese Language Helpline: assists hundreds of monolingual or LEP Cantonese and Mandarin speakers each year. (2.)The Project SURVIVE Helpline: assists approximately 200 survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking each year. (3.)The Work & Family Helpline: assisted well over a thousand pregnant women, new parents, workers with serious health conditions, and caregivers in 2017.Lastly, through limited representation, attorneys assist individual clients with matters such as: requesting personnel files, drafting demand letters, negotiating informal settlements, assisting clients draft and file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and representing workers in pre-litigation settlement conferences and mediations.Impact LitigationLAAW also litigates cases that have a broad impact across a community, a geographic area, an industry, or a large employer. For example: 1. We won a landmark victory in Arias v. Raimondo, 860 F.3d 1185 (9th Cir. 2017), where the Court held that it would constitute unlawful retaliation under federal law for an attorney in an employment lawsuit to call the immigration authorities to have our client deported at his deposition. This precedent-setting decision protects countless undocumented workers from retaliation by third parties acting in an employers interest.2. With co-counsel, we settled a groundbreaking human trafficking lawsuit alleging horrific working conditions on commercial fishing boats that docked in San Francisco. This lawsuit was the first known action brought under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the U.S. Commercial fishing industry, and the settlement included the unprecedented adoption of a defendants code of conduct that included a requirement that seamen be told of their rights under United States law, setting the stage for industry-wide change.3. We joined Disability Rights Advocates in filing a significant class action against BART on behalf persons with mobility disabilities. Our clients rely on BARTs transit services but are unable to access them because of filthy elevators soiled by human waste, non-working escalators, broken service gates, and other consistent failures in the system. 4. We secured a significant settlement in a Title IX class action brought on behalf of high school girls living in the rural and low-income community of Red Bluff, California. The case was brought to enforce federal law requiring equity for girls in the provision of athletic opportunities. This is one of several similar and successful actions, bringing awareness to parents, schools, coaches, girls, and the community about gender equity in sports programs run by public schools. LAAWs docket also includes enforcement cases that vindicate an individual workers right to unpaid wages, a reasonable accommodation for a disability, a work environment free of discrimination, a medical leave to care for an ill parent, or the right to return to a position after taking parenting leave, and labor trafficking. These cases keep employers accountable, re-enforce and strengthen laws, and, importantly, make tangible differences in our clients lives.Outreach and EducationLAAW believes that educating low-wage workers about workplace rights can protect them from abuse and gives them agency to advocate for their workplace rights. We produce more than 100 print and online Know Your Rights or Do It Yourself resources, including videos, which collectively cover a wide variety of legal rights topics relevant to low-income workers and their families. In addition to the many resources available on our website, www.legalaidatwork.org, we post clinic schedules and links to other helpful websites and sister social and legal services organizations. LAAWs website meets standards for visually-impaired users. Most of our resources are available in Spanish and Chinese, and many are also available in Filipino and Vietnamese.One unique outreach and education project targets the Bay Areas large monolingual or low-English-proficiency Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking community. Our Language Access Coordinator 1) produces a weekly Know Your Rights column in Sing Tao Daily, the nations largest Chinese-language daily; and 2) hosts two weekly employment-related Q&A segments on two major Chinese community radio stations, AM 1400 KEST (Cantonese) and FM 96.1 KSQQ (Mandarin). Together the stations reach an estimated 515,000 Chinese speakers each week.LAAW also conducts in-person outreach and education in specific client communities through presentations. Veterans are an example of a community with serious workplace challenges. A LAAW project has developed relationships with veteran communities throughout California and holds pop-up clinics at stand down events for women veterans. Staff also conducts outreach and assists veterans who have post-traumatic stress or are survivors of military sexual trauma who need workplace accommod Form 990, Part VI, Line 1a: Explanation of Delegated Broad Authority to Committee By resolution on 5/26/11 the Board of Directors ratified and confirmed that it had in the past and continued to delegate authority to the Executive Committee to act on its behalf in all matters except those specified in that resolution. At year-end 2017 the Executive Committee had 50 members. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process 990 draft copy will be presented and communicated to Finance Committee(FC). FC approve form 990 after their review and a copy of form 990 will be presented to the Board after it's filed with IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Each member and staff must sign and acknowledge LAAW's conflict of interest policy when hire. A copy of the signed policy is placed in staff's personnel file. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Each year the Board of Trustee review and approve ED's compensation in December for the following year. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Each year the Board of Trustee review and approve officers and key employees compensation in December for the following year. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Upon request.