FLAP focuses on education and distribution of Cannabis Expungement resources, Employment Litigation, connecting low-wage communities with Eviction legal process, Immigration private law firms and legal aid organizations.
The primary goal of the FLAP employment litigation work is to recover owed wages for low-wage communities in the food supply chain, greenhouse, landscaping, nursery and snow plowing industries.
FLAP in-house attorney litigates under both federal and state laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), and the Agricultural Worker Protection Act (“AWPA”). FLAP clients mainly bring forth claims for nonpayment of minimum wages, nonpayment of overtime wages and illegal deduction in violation of these federal and state laws.
FLAP has:
- Educated more than 3.0 million low-wage people on their human and legal rights with focus on cannabis expungement, employment law, eviction law and immigration law;
- Endorsed and sent more than 1,823petitions and letters advocating for low-wage workers with focus on those in the food supply chain, greenhouse, landscaping, nursery and snow removal industries;
- Distributed more than 6,110,848million of community outreach and education material with resources and information, including legal and social services, technology and financial assistance available to low-wage workers;
- Delivered more than 367,028 “Know Your Rights” presentations;
- Educated more than 300,000 low-wage people on cannabis expungement.
- Provided more than 1,500 immigrations in house law services by FLAP.
- Referred more than 5.0million of low-wage people to private immigration attorneys and/or immigration legal aid organizations.
- Referred more than 278,576 employment potential cases to employment legal aid organizations and private employment law firms that resulted in 4,583 employment lawsuits filed in federal and state courts. From those, FLAP filed 273in-house employment lawsuits in federal and state courts -90% representing multiple workers as class actions or collective actions.
- Connected to and educated more than1.2 million of low-wage people on Eviction legal process;
- Sent 196 employment law demand letters. Of those, 94 are in-house employment demand letters sent on behalf of very low-wage workers and their households in the food supply chain, greenhouse, landscaping, nursery, and snow plowing industries;
- Recovered more than $13 million dollars in back wages and damages for low-wage workers. From those FLAP in house attorneys recovered more than $5.0 Million. More than $8.0 million was recovered by other law firms and legal aid organizations that FLAP referred cases to;
FLAP does not receive funding from the Federal Legal Services Corporation. FLAP’s funding generally arises from Attorney fees, Cy-près, direct donor contributions, endowment, fundraising activities, including appeal letters, fundraiser events in person and online, government contracts, grants from family and/or community foundations, in-kind contributions, referrals fees, stocks market