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Worksafe is a California-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting occupational safety and health through education, training and advocacy. We focus on eliminating all types of workplace hazards and also on workplace-created toxic hazards that impact at-risk communities in California. We advocate for protective worker health and safety laws and effective remedies for injured workers. Worksafe supports a network of health and safety activists.
This job requires much more than legal expertise. Attorneys for Worksafe work with the Board and Executive Director to determine how best to achieve our mission. We work with many groups to determine generally what is needed to protect workers from injury and assure effective remedies to those who are injured. Work involves needs assessments, developing work plans and programs and organizing implementation. The attorney will be responsible for applying legal knowledge in occupational safety and health, workers’ compensation, third party remedies for injured workers, and private rights of action. The attorney will also need to become familiar with technical occupational safety and health issues, workers’ compensation law, and understand applicable scientific and technical issues. On occasion the attorney may provide advice directly to workers, but most often such is done in partnership with a legal services program.
Specifically, the work involves serving the legal services community and others by:
Providing technical assistance
- Working cooperatively with experts to assure accurate legal and technical information regarding OSH and workers’ compensation issues including: filing OSH complaints; advising on workers’ compensation and third party remedies, OSH and workers’ comp retaliation cases, and private rights of action under B&P 17200 or LC 2699; providing technical advice on occupational safety and health and toxic hazards etc.;
Impact litigation
- On occasion, engaging in impact litigation related to OSH and injured worker issues such as filing writs to challenge OSH administrative decisions, OSH Standards Board actions, etc.;
Engaging in legislative work
- Writing legislation and lobbying (including testifying and organizing grass roots lobbying) regarding OSH and injured worker issues in local, state and federal jurisdictions;
Engaging in regulatory work
- Writing regulations and policies & procedures and lobbying for their implementation (including testifying before regulatory bodies, participating in regulatory advisory committees, and organizing grass roots lobbying) regarding OSH and some injured worker issues in local and state jurisdictions;
Training
- Writing manuals and power points and presenting training to legal services programs and others on OSH and injured worker issues, retaliation, administrative advocacy, toxics, and other topics as required; working with experts to assure that technical information is accurate and presentations are effective for the audience; reviewing materials created by legal services and others who directly train workers and providing them with train-the-trainer programs;
Policy work
- Researching, analyzing and developing policies to improve the health and safety of workers in response to the needs of legal services programs and other partners, and developing strategies to advocate for implementation of those policies;
Engaging in program work
- Developing and staffing work plans to address needs within the legal services community to assure workers a safe and healthful place to work and effective remedies should they be injured, eg. creating clinics with legal services programs to assure that low wage injured workers who are unable to find an attorney are assisted with the problems resulting from a work place injury, such as denial of timely and effective medical care and temporary income replacement, and retaliation.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, analyze and develop policies to improve worker occupational safety and health and injured worker remedies with a focus on low wage and immigrant workers and the legal services programs that serve those workers
- Provide technical assistance
- Develop training materials and provide training
- Provide advocacy support
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Minimum Qualifications
- Member of California Bar
- Exceptional analytical, research, verbal/written communication skills
- Litigation experience (at least 3 years)
- Networking and organizing skills
- Self-starter
- Computer literate
- OSH, work comp, labor or legal services background desirable and passion for the work required
- Bilingual in a language of one or more California immigrant worker populations desirable
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