Our Mission Statement
Just Pay For All - unites traditionally excluded workers and gives meaning to real social and economic change across industries, Illinois and the nation.
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Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Feature on Just Pay For All
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On July 30, 2010, Illinois’ Governor Quinn signed into law the most sweeping reforms to the state’s anti-wage theft law in the past 35 years. This success follows Just Pay For All’s campaign to pass the strongest protections in the nation for workers in the temporary staffing industry in 2006 - 2009. In both cases, the improvements in the laws were the result of worker leaders from all of Just Pay For All’s members making the long trip to Springfield over the past few years to tell their stories so that Illinois legislators, like the wage payment bill’s sponsors Senator Willie Delgado and Representatives Elizabeth Hernandez and Marlow Colvin the temporary staffing bill’s sponsors former Senator Miguel Del Valle and Representative Cynthia Soto, could better understand the connection between wage theft and poverty and better comprehend the barriers to effective enforcement in the new economy. In addition to increased civil and criminal penalties for repeat violators, the new laws provide workers who have been victimized by wage theft a mechanism to successfully prosecute their claims on their own behalf through the new small claims administrative process.
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Kim Cambra, testifying before the Illinois House of Representatives Labor Committee.
"When the Duraco company started stealing our earned wages, we lost everything. My house was foreclosed on. I heard from some of my co-workers that they’re literally living out of their cars now. We fought for these amendments so this would never happen again.”
Kim Cambra of Duraco Products, Inc./Just Pay leader
Wage theft is a root cause of poverty! |
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Initiating Organizations
This project was generously supported by the Public Welfare Foundation – with additional support from the Woods Fund, the Field Foundation,
the Illinois Lawyers’ Trust Fund, the Chicago Bar Foundation the Discount Foundation and Catholic Campaign for Human Development. |
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