Employment Law Volunteering
Phone Advice
- Time Commitment: 2-hour shift
- Service Level: Advice only
- Experience Required? Yes
- Description: VLN schedules up to 4 clients for the volunteer to call during a monthly phone advice shift. Legal advice given on a wide gamut of employment law issues, including unemployment compensation. Volunteers are not asked to advise on workers compensation or labor law.
Limited Services
- Time Commitment: 1-3 hours
- Service Level: Limited services
- Experience Required? No
- Description: Assist clients with wage demand letters or personnel file request letters to former employers.
Full/Extended Services
- Time Commitment: 3+ hours, varies
- Service Level: Full/extended rep
- Experience Required? Some preferred
- Description: VLN does not provide full representation on fee generating cases, but at times there are full rep employment law cases that need placement with an attorney, such as helping a client that can’t read or write file a Complaint with the EEOC.
Publicly-available volunteering resources for our administrative law program are in development. For questions and requests, contact our Civil Program Manager.
