This year alone, with your support, we’ve extended critical rights to millions of workers and families, defended hard-won progress, and assisted thousands of workers in exercising their rights under the law.
Read on for ten 2025 victories for working families you should know about:
- We secured a victorious ruling from the U.S. Fifth Circuit in Texas v. Bondi—ensuring the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act remains the law of the land and restoring rights for Texas state employees.
- In total, we passed 12 new state and local policies across the country this year, winning powerful new protections for working families.
- We won new paid leave rights for state employees across the South, including in Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- We expanded paid family and medical leave in Colorado to protect parents with new babies in the NICU with 12 additional weeks of paid leave.
- We supported the implementation of new paid sick time laws in Nebraska and Alaska, covering more than half a million workers.
- We played a pivotal role in state supreme court decisions upholding paid leave laws in Michigan and Maine.
- New York City and Pittsburgh both expanded their paid sick time laws to better meet the needs of workers.
- We filed a total of 10 new legal cases on behalf of workers and students this year, fighting to secure relief for our clients and force large, serial violator corporations like Amazon and Speedway to change their policies.
- We filed a major class-action lawsuit on behalf of disabled Amazon workers, seeking justice for thousands of hourly warehouse workers across New York State.
- We supported thousands of workers in exercising their rights with our free and confidential legal helpline and digital know-your-rights resources.
As we enter 2026, we will continue to build upon these wins; together, we will stand strong against attempts to trample on democracy, women’s health, and workers’ rights as we keep fighting to make life more affordable and healthy for millions of families and elevate workplace issues to the forefront of the national political conversation.