Title: National Workrights Institute

Source/Sponsoring Agency: National Workrights Institute

URL: http://www.workrights.org/

Date Checked: 9/24/2005      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 9/24/2005

Topics: Employment Law

Other keywords: Labor Law

Contents: Based in Princeton, NJ, the National Workrights Institute (NWI) was founded in January 2000 by the former staff of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace. The Institute was created to be the premier organization championing human rights in the workplace, focusing not on enforcement of current laws but on recommending the promulgation of new ones. The NWI focuses on issues such as alternative dispute resolution, drug testing, genetic and lifestyle discrimination, medical privacy, and other concerns. These issue sections on the Institute’s website provides news items, statements, studies, speeches, articles, Congressional testimony, model policies, legislative briefs, and more. The “NWI in the News” section provides links to relevant external news items, but is not available as an RSS feed. The NWI site is searchable.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler