{"id":1247,"date":"2017-05-09T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2021-11-23T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:07:53","slug":"sheller-centers-temp-worker-project-debuts-29th-annual-workers-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/2017\/05\/09\/sheller-centers-temp-worker-project-debuts-29th-annual-workers-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheller Center\u2019s Temp Worker Project debuts at 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day, the <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1250\" src=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-Worker-Memorial-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-Worker-Memorial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-Worker-Memorial.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/05\/Final-One-Page-Fact-Sheet-Temp-Workers.pdf\">Sheller Center&#8217;s Temp Workers Project <\/a>made its debut in front of an audience of hundreds of people, including Governor Wolf. Temp workers in Pennsylvania are increasingly found in blue collar industries and low-wage work. They are especially vulnerable to health and safety risks and pay violations on the job. A report by Rebecca Daily (2L), Tracie Johnson, and Holly Smith (2L), students in the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic, will be forthcoming this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day, the Sheller Center&#8217;s Temp Workers Project made its debut in front of an audience of hundreds of people, including Governor Wolf. Temp workers in Pennsylvania are increasingly found in blue collar industries and low-wage work. They are especially vulnerable to health and safety risks and pay violations on &#8230; <a title=\"Sheller Center\u2019s Temp Worker Project debuts at 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/2017\/05\/09\/sheller-centers-temp-worker-project-debuts-29th-annual-workers-memorial-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sheller Center\u2019s Temp Worker Project debuts at 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,23],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-rights-of-low-wage-workers","tag-social-justice-lawyering-clinic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sheller Center\u2019s Temp Worker Project debuts at 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day - Elder Justice Consortium<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ejc\/2017\/05\/09\/sheller-centers-temp-worker-project-debuts-29th-annual-workers-memorial-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sheller Center\u2019s Temp Worker Project debuts at 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day - Elder Justice Consortium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the 29th annual Worker\u2019s Memorial Day, the Sheller Center&#8217;s Temp Workers Project made its debut in front of an audience of hundreds of people, including Governor Wolf. 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