Employment
Helping people earn a living wage by addressing discrimination and systemic barriers to employment
News
- We urge protections against imprisonment solely for the inability to pay fines in new comments on PA criminal procedure rules
- Our comment on new proposed SBA rules for veterans with criminal histories
- Data remains unreliable in OVR reports from the first two quarters of 2019-2020
- Court rules that former SBA rules barring business owners with criminal records from aid were illegal, extends deadline for our clients
- Small Business Administration Amends PPP Loan Eligibility for Business Owners with Criminal Records Following Civil Rights Lawsuit
- The Public Interest Law Center is establishing a disability rights policy circle
- Civil rights organizations sue the Small Business Administration for excluding business owners with criminal records from COVID-19 relief
- Our public comment opposing new criminal record restrictions for COVID-19 recovery loans to small businesses
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Current Cases & Projects
- Patterson v. Commonwealth
- Taking on Unlawful Restrictions on COVID-19 Emergency Relief for Business Owners with Criminal Records
- Increasing Employment Opportunities for Pennsylvanians with Criminal Histories
- Know Your Rights as a Job Applicant with a Criminal Record in Pennsylvania
- Community Redevelopment Legal Assistance Project
