Education Programs

Since its inception, the EJC has developed relationships with the communities that we serve, teaching low-income workers about their rights in the workplace. We believe that educating workers about their rights, empowering them to assert and protect those rights and giving them the tools to fight for themselves and others in the future is an effective way to build lasting social change. Soon after the EJC was founded, we launched El Teatro de los Trabajadores, a traveling street theater group that performed plays in Spanish about employment issues and rights, and which also let individuals in Latino neighborhoods and organizations know about the EJC. At present, an EJC staff member goes directly into the community to day laborer gathering sites to meet with the Latino day laborers who congregate in those locations seeking work to give them tips on how to protect themselves and their wages while on odd jobs and temporary assignments. In more formal classroom and workshop settings across the metropolitan area, the EJC has educated over 10,000 workers about various workplace rights issues since 2000. In addition, we continue to disseminate our many educational materials such as fact sheets and our very popular Criminal Records Manual, which helps individuals to clean up and expunge applicable criminal records.

The EJC leads interactive education presentations about workplace rights and responsibilities and employment law issues for employers and workers alike.  We also publish fact sheets in Spanish & English about rights in the workplace.

If you would like to ask the EJC to give an education presentation or if you would like to volunteer in our education program, send us an email to justice@dcejc.org or call us at (202) 828-WORK x 11.