Bilingual (English/Spanish) Agricultural Worker Project Staff Attorney, St. Paul, Mankato, or Worthington, Minnesota
SMRLS provides free, high-quality legal help in critical civil matters to low-income people in southern Minnesota, as well as to agricultural workers throughout Minnesota and North Dakota. For more than 100 years, SMRLS has helped individuals and families secure and protect their basic needs, maintaining freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness, and abuse.
AWP provides free civil legal services to agricultural workers in Minnesota and North Dakota focused on improving clients’ working and living conditions through legal representation, outreach, and education. AWP advises and represents clients with cases involving wage theft, workplace health and safety violations, inadequate employer-provided housing, labor trafficking, employment discrimination or retaliation, H-2A contract violations, and other legal matters that specifically impact agricultural workers. AWP provides education to agricultural workers in Minnesota and North Dakota about their legal rights through extensive outreach and presentations to agricultural worker communities.
AWP is looking for a motivated, creative, and flexible staff attorney who is bilingual in English and Spanish to join its team of dedicated attorneys and paralegals to address and resolve the myriad legal issues that negatively impact the working and living conditions of agricultural workers. AWP currently has staff in SMRLS’ offices in Moorhead, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The attorney selected for this position will have the option of being based in SMRLS’ Saint Paul, Mankato, or Worthington office and will be supervised by AWP’s lead attorney, located in the Saint Paul office. In addition to maintaining a case load, the staff attorney is expected to travel throughout Minnesota with other staff members in order to conduct outreach to agricultural workers, provide legal rights presentations, and to meet with clients.
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