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Do You Know Your Rights As an Employee?
Even if you don’t have a union, you have labor rights!
Even if you don’t have documents, you have labor rights!
UNEMPLOYMENT/DISABILITY INSURANCE
TENANT’S HABITABILITY LAWS
UNPAID WAGE CLAIMS
IMMIGRATION STATUS
UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS
WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURANCE
Regular office hours are 9:00 to 5:00 PM on Monday through Friday.
Other hours are by appointment only.
Phone the Center’s 24-hour message line at (619) 521-1372
Office: 4265 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 210, San Diego, CA
Located in City Heights near the I-15 freeway
More information: ERC Website
The San Diego's Employee Rights Center (ERC) was created in 1999 to support nonunion workers with a host of issues, including unemployment claims, wage disputes, immigrants’ labor rights and demands against unscrupulous companies and employers.
The Center, with its law school student volunteers, can educate, assist and advocate for you. Education about your rights is provided for free. Representation services are available for low fees that you can afford. The Center’s activities are sponsored by the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Labor’s Alliance (501c3), local unions, grants, tax-deductible contributions and various private foundations.
For 10 years the Employee Rights Center in City Heights has been providing education and advocacy to all workers regarding their workplace rights and benefits. Its offices are centrally located by the corner of Fairmount Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard and are open Monday through Friday 9 AM to 5 PM, allowing City Heights residents and all others to walk in at their convenience or call the Center’s 24-hour message service.
As the only non-profit program in San Diego that is focused on workplace rights, the Center has helped thousands of low-income employees recover their unpaid wages, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, and other workplace benefits. These benefits are crucial in improving employees’ ability to pay their rent, get access to health care when injured, to maintain their family’s welfare, and to be self-sufficient. The Center uses over 20 local law student volunteers supervised by an attorney to deliver these services and further educate all employees about their workplace rights/benefits. The Center recruits a diverse cadre of law students of Latino, African, Asian, and Middle Eastern descent in order to have culturally competent services to immigrant communities.
Since 2004 the Center has also been helping immigrant workers get legal status, improvetheir immigrant status and become U.S. citizens, all fundamental needs in City Heights. There are no other non-profit immigration services in City Heights serving its large, diverse immigrant populations who need convenient, low-cost service and education. By being here the Center is accountable to the community it serves. The Center not only provides all these services at its Fairmount Avenue offices, it also provides education on workplace rights and immigration status at various community workshops currently being organized with community partners in the area.
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