The Wage Justice Center fights for greater economic equality for California’s working poor and economic justice for all workers in the increasingly integrated global economy. By developing and promoting innovative legal strategies, The Wage Justice Center collects unpaid wages from exploitative employers who routinely escape consequences.

Low-wage-industry employers routinely escape consequences for exploitative labor practices using shell corporations, alteration of legal title, fraudulent transfers of assets, and other schemes to escape legal liability for unpaid wages. Such abuses of legal tools allow bad-faith employers to profit from exploitative labor practices at the expense of low-income workers and law-abiding businesses. The Wage Justice Center deploys elements of commercial law, corporations/business law, trusts/estates law and the law of remedies to hold exploitative employers accountable for violating basic workers’ rights, returning unjustly acquired wealth to the workers who earned it.  _{Learn more >>>}