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- EIN 27-4670409
- (617) 690-8169
- 33 Harrison Ave Boston MA 02111-2008 USA
- jatwork.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Employment, Job Training
Mission: Labor and employment legal services for low-wage workers, training, in-take, referral and direct representation.
Programs: The organization serves its mission by supporting low wage immigrant workers by providing legal needs to immigrant worker centers. The agency provides a mixture of employment and labor related legal support by training, educating, referrals and representation, in order to address issues in relation to wage theft, unsafe conditions, discrimination, harassment and illegal retaliation. The agency partners directly with worker centers, community-based non-profits that support workers in low-paying jobs and provide training and connections to professional services such as attorneysattorney fees - the agency earns attorney fees for legal services provided to client. The agency also earns co-counsel attorney fees when cases are co-counseled with other private attorneys, the fees are split through a lodestar approach under a contingency fee agreement. Referral fees - the agency earns referral fees by recommending or sending clients to third party attorneys.