Worker Protection Attorney
The Office of the City Attorney (“OCA”) is seeking a new Worker Protection Attorney, focusing on wage theft in Oakland and helping to establish a Worker Protection Unit in the Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division. California bar is required.
The City Attorney’s Office provides counsel to the City Council, Mayor, City Administrator, and City boards and commissions, various City-wide task forces and City agencies and departments. Incumbents perform a variety of professional legal duties involving civil municipal law issues.
The ideal candidate for this position will have experience in affirmative litigation, such as worker’s rights, civil rights, consumer, environmental justice, housing justice, tenant protection and/or racial justice cases. Desirable knowledge and experience include a background in: litigation, including complex civil cases in state and/or federal court, writs, and appeals; policy work, including drafting proposed local legislation; community engagement, including working in coalition with nonprofits and community groups; and administrative procedure, including administrative remedies and rule-making. The attorney will work with a Worker Protection Attorney, other litigators, labor and employment attorneys and other attorneys in the Office.
The position is a second newly created role funded by a grant through the California Department of Industrial Relations. This is an eleven month at-will grant-funded position. The Worker Protection Attorney will work on existing wage theft cases and develop new wage-theft litigation.
Interested applicants can submit by visiting OCA’s webpage.
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