Overview of Key Issues Facing Low-Wage Immigrant Workers
(Dec. 2007, excerpted from Resource Manual: Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference 2007).

• Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Immigrant Worker Issues in

• Employer Sanctions: State & Local Legislation & Litigation

• Employment Eligibility Verification and Antidiscrimination Protections (see also "Reverification of Workers' Employment Authorization," below)
    - Basic Pilot/E-Verify (electronic employment verification system - EEVS)
    - Temporary Protected Status and Proving Work Authorization

• Employment Rights and Remedies

• Immigrant Workers' Rights Resource Manual

• Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) and Immigrants

• "Know-Your-Rights" Community Education Materials

• Miscellaneous Issues

• Notable Litigation

• Research on Immigrants and Employment

• Reverification of Workers' Employment Authorization

• Social Security Administration (SSA)-related Information

• Workforce Development

• Workplace Enforcement by Immigration Authorities

Immigrant Workers' Rights Resource Manual

• Resource Material for Legal Advocates

• Resource Material for Community and Labor Organizers

• Resource Material for Immigrant Workers

Reverification of Workers' Employment Authorization

• Reverification of Employment Eligibility: Frequently Asked Questions

• Basic Information about Reverification, NELP and NILC (4/04): PDF

• Sample Contract Language (for use by unions in working with employers on handling INS inquiries): Word | PDF

Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)
and Immigrants

• The IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number: An Operational Guide to the ITIN Program (Center for Economic Progress, 2004) (PDF)

• Concerns Raised about Potential IRS Sharing of ITIN-Related Information (2/17/04)

Notable Litigation

Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB

• Talking Points: Hoffman Plastic Decision – Bad for Workers; Bad for Business (PDF) (3/03)

• Assessing the Impact of the Supreme Court's Decision in Hoffman...on Immigrant Workers and Recent Developments, NELP and NILC (10/18/02) (PDF)

• U.S. Supreme Court Bars Undocumented Worker From Receiving Backpay Remedy For Unlawful Firing (4/12/02)

• Supreme Court Reverses D.C. Circuit (text of Supreme Court majority opinion and dissent) (3/27/02) (PDF)

• Amici curiae brief (PDF only) (note: this is a large file; download time may be prolonged)

• Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB: Supreme Court to Hear Back Pay Case Involving Undocumented Worker (10/8/01)

• Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB: D.C. Circuit Court Affirms the Right of Undocumented Workers to Receive Back Pay (2/28/01)

Rivera, et al. v. NIBCO, Inc., et al.

• 9th Circuit Upholds Protective Order Limiting Employers’ Inquiries into Plaintiffs’ Immigration Status (6/18/04)

• Plaintiffs' Brief in Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Reconsideration of Protective Order, to Open Discovery, and to Extend Trial Date (4/17/02) (PDF)

• Plaintiffs' Supplemental Brief in Opposition to Defendants' Request for Reconsideration (11/13/01) (PDF)

• Court Grants Immigrant Workers Protective Order Regarding Immigration Status (8/31/01)

• Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendants' Request for Reconsideration by the District Court of Magistrate Judge's Ruling (7/3/01) (PDF)

• Protective Order (6/15/01) (PDF)

• Plaintiffs' Reply Brief (6/4/01) (PDF)

• Plaintiffs' Opening Brief (5/21/01) (PDF)

• For information on Workforce Investment Act (WIA) reauthorization, see:  Immigrants & Employment > Workforce Development

• Index to E-mail Benefits Updates

• Check the Community Education materials page for outreach materials relating to the topics on this page.

• Subscribe to NILC's Immigrants' Rights Update to get current developments in immigration law, employment, and public benefits in an easy-to-use format, eight times a year.

• For more information on IRCA-related issues, visit the website of the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices at www.usdoj.gov/crt/osc.