Credits

Change Has Come to the Workplace: The Workplace Fairness 2009 Labor Day Report was written by Hannah Goitein, Class of 2011, The George Washington University Law School, and legal intern for Workplace Fairness. Hannah would like to acknowledge assistance of her colleagues Paula Brantner and Brett Brownell, and the web design assistance of Midwest New Media, LLC. For comments on this report or expert commentary on workplace trends or employee rights for your next business, career, or labor story, contact Workplace Fairness Executive Director Paula Brantner by email at paula@workplacefairness.org or by telephone at 240.429.0260.

For more information about the issues raised by this report, please visit the Workplace Fairness website, www.workplacefairness.org. For the most comprehensive information about your legal rights in the workplace—free of legal jargon—please visit our site’s “Your Rights” area. Our free e–newsletter, Workplace Week, provides the most current information available on the cutting–edge issues that affect working people and their advocates. Our blog, Today’s Workplace, is your source for the latest developments in workplace rights and employment law. In September 2009, our “Taking Back Labor Day” blog carnival will feature dozens of guest authors commenting on the importance of the labor movement and critical issues affecting workers.

Workplace Fairness is a non–profit organization that promotes workplace policies and practices that work for everyone. Through our website at www.workplacefairness.org, we provide information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promote public policies that advance employee rights. Our goal is to bring together workers, employers, advocates and policymakers to achieve fairness in the workplace.