CLASP submitted these comments on the Department of Labor’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the standard for determining who is an employee and who is an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Migrant and Seasonal…
The report argues that these harms deepen poverty and inequity, especially for women of color, and calls for worker-centered paid leave policies with job protection, anti-retaliation measures, strong wage replacement, inclusive family definitions, paid sick days, and bereavement leave.
CLASP submitted comments in response to a federal request for information on the future of college sports, urging policymakers to center fairness, educational opportunity, and economic security for student-athletes. Our response addresses compensation, financial aid, NIL, revenue sharing, Title IX, and employment status, and makes…
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) submitted this comment in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Committee’s ongoing rulemaking to implement student financial aid provisions under Public Law 119–21 and the Office of Postsecondary Education’s Notice…
On February 24, CLASP's Education, Labor & Worker Justice Director Elyse Shaw testified before the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Education & Workforce Committee. The hearing was titled, “Balancing Careers and Care: Examining Innovative Approaches to Paid Leave.”
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States, and this February brings the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which founded Black History Month, calls us to celebrate Black history across the African Diaspora and how that history is tied to Black…
CLASP’s new report, The Exploitative Mechanisms of Precarious Work: National Insights and New Orleans’ Worker Voices, examines how subcontracting, staffing intermediaries, and enforcement gaps create a labor system defined by invisibility and risk-shifting. Through national data and testimonies from event-based workers in New Orleans, this…
CLASP’s new timeline, “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” provides a clear illustration of just some of the ways that President Trump and his administration have targeted and harmed families, children, immigrants, communities of color, women, and people…
Submitted November 28, 2025 The Center for Law and Social Policy submits this comment opposing in the strongest possible terms the October 30, 2025 Interim Final Rule (“2025 IFR”) eliminating automatic extensions of Employment Authorization Documents (“EADs”). The 2025 IFR unlawfully reverses DHS’s nearly decade-long…