Women's Rights Employment Law Blog

Eleven nonprofit groups have been given around $725,000 in grants by the Department of Justice to carry out public education programs for workers and employers about immigration-related job discrimination.

Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Civil Rights Division has awarded the grants, which range from $45,000 to $85,000. Recipients will assist discrimination victims; conduct seminars for workers, employers and immigration service providers; distribute educational materials in various languages; and place advertisements in local communities through both mainstream and ethnic media.

The OSC grant recipients are:

Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs - Washington, D.C. -- will educate thousands of agricultural workers and employers through a network of 340 member agencies' rural offices throughout the lower 48 states and Puerto Rico.

Catholic Charities of Dallas -- Dallas, Texas -- will serve workers and employers in Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese Arlington, Hogar Hispano -- Arlington, Va. - will serve immigrant workers and employers in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Centro Legal de la Raza -- Oakland, Calif. - will reach Latino workers and employers throughout the five-county San Francisco Bay area.

Civil Society -- St. Paul, Minn. -- will serve workers and employers in the Twin Cities' Asian, African and Hispanic communities.

Colorado Legal Services -- Denver, Colo. -- will educate service providers and newly-arrived Asian and Muslim immigrants in the Denver area as well as rural migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout the state.

Employers' Association of New Jersey -- Livingston, N.J. -- will advise thousands of employers on the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) -- Los Angeles, Calif. -- will serve Latino and Asian immigrants and refugee workers and employers in the greater Los Angeles area.

Legal Assistance Foundation of Central Massachusetts -- Worcester, Mass. -- will educate workers, service providers and leaders among the Latino, Southeast Asian and African communities in central Massachusetts.

National Immigration Law Center (NILC) -- Los Angeles, Calif. -- will carry out a national program to educate immigration service providers and pro bono attorneys through regional seminars in California's Central Valley and in the post- Katrina Gulf Coast region.

YMCA of Greater New York -- New York, N.Y. -- will provide education to employers, service providers and immigrant workers from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and South Asia.