“Workers who haven’t been paid the minimum wage, overtime, or at all for work they’ve done are often unable to recover wages they’re owed and face delays when they attempt to do so, Greater Boston Legal Services staff attorney Jason Salgado said.”
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" 'It is our understanding that SNAP benefits will be issued retroactively when the shutdown ends,' said Lizbeth Ginsburg, a managing attorney in the welfare law unit at Greater Boston Legal Services."
"Three lawsuits have been filed, including one based in Boston by Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) and a group of taxpayer and immigrants’ rights advocates, charging that the data-sharing agreement violates longstanding privacy protections between the IRS, ICE, and the Social Security Administration."
"At an Oct. 9 bond, an immigration judge granted Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar of Malden his release with help from Greater Boston Legal Services. On Oct. 11, after nearly a month in immigration detention, Escobar was reunited with his family."
Pauline Quirion, Director of GBLS’ CORI & Re-entry Project, writes: "The [Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly] story on Massachusetts potentially raising the Juvenile Court age to 21...highlights compelling arguments as to why the state needs to raise the age of Juvenile Court jurisdiction to include 18- to 20-year-olds."
Please click here to read the letter to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
" 'If we get involved, chances are the people have loved ones that know, or neighbors that know,' [the man’s attorney] said, referring to GBLS. '… But, what happens to people who — no one witnessed it, or they don’t have a big sense of community or people who are close to them that can just call us immediately?' "
Ilana B. Gelfman, GBLS’ Director of Advocacy and chair of the SJC Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, co-wrote this article. "[We are writing in our capacities as leaders of the Access to Justice Commission (now celebrating its 20th anniversary) and the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services to encourage you to provide pro bono legal services to help the thousands of Massachusetts residents who cannot afford counsel for their essential legal needs."
" 'It is a shocking revelation that the Social Security Administration has also agreed to send private taxpayer data to ICE for immigration enforcement…We had to file this case to remind both agencies that our confidentiality laws apply to them both and that their sharing is unlawful.' "
"...Greater Boston Legal Services...has been helping with deportation defense work for Somerville residents [and] GBLS has, in some cases, been able to file paperwork to keep people from being transferred out of state."
"This year marks the 125th anniversary of Greater Boston Legal Services (“GBLS”), which provides free civil legal aid to residents of Boston and beyond. A review of its history at its quasquicentennial reveals much about how the city’s legal community has endeavored to answer a call to do justice for those in need of legal services, both then and now."