Worker Protection Attorney
The Office of the City Attorney (“OCA”) seeks a well-qualified individual for a new Worker Protection Attorney position, which focuses on wage theft in Oakland and helping to establish a Worker Protection Unit in the Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division. Employment, labor, and/or plaintiff-side litigation experience is preferred for this position.
THE POSITION
The Office of the City Attorney (“OCA”) seeks a well-qualified individual, as described below, for a new Worker Protection Attorney position, focusing on wage theft in Oakland and helping to establish a Worker Protection Unit in the Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division. Employment, labor, and/or plaintiff-side litigation experience is preferred for this position. California Bar admission is required.
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 other litigators and with labor and employment attorneys and other attorneys in the Office.
The Worker Protection Attorney may be supervised on different projects by a Deputy City Attorney V, Special Counsel, Chief Assistant City Attorney and/or the City Attorney. Attorneys in this diverse and exciting Office frequently work collaboratively with other attorneys and other City Departments on a wide variety of issues, and the Worker Protection Attorney may work with other City Attorney and County Counsel offices around the Bay Area, throughout California, and across the country.
The position is a newly-created role funded by a grant through the California Department of Industrial Relations. This is a one-year at-will grant-funded position. The Worker Protection Attorney will work on existing wage theft cases, and develop new wage-theft litigation.
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