Areas of expertise
Workers’ rights • Workplace law enforcement
Biography
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Center for Labor and a Just Economy, and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. Previously, she was the Labor Bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office and a deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor. Before her government service, Gerstein was a nonprofit lawyer in Miami, Florida, representing immigrant workers. Her writing on workers’ rights issues has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The American Prospect, NBC News THINK, Teen Vogue, and more. She is a member of the American Law Institute and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Education
A.B., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School
By Content:
By Area of Research:
By Type:
-
The Supreme Court sided with corporations over workers—again
-
Power in partnership: How government agencies and community partners are joining forces to fight wage theft
-
Local governments stepping in to bolster workers’ rights
-
The role of local government in protecting workers’ rights: A comprehensive overview of the ways that cities, counties, and other localities are taking action on behalf of working people
-
Enforcers take action to protect building superintendents and grocery and construction workers: A snapshot of state and local enforcement actions across the country
-
Enforcers take action to protect workers from workplace violations at Domino’s and Family Dollar stores: A snapshot of state and local enforcement actions across the country
-
Chicago and New York take action to protect domestic workers: A snapshot of state and local enforcement actions across the country
-
State attorney general takes action to protect workers against COVID-19: A snapshot of state and local enforcement actions across the country
-
State attorney general addresses extreme underpayment of immigrant detainees: A snapshot of state and local enforcement actions to protect workers
-
State and local enforcers standing up to protect workers: Misclassifying workers ‘a pattern of deceit’
-
How district attorneys and state attorneys general are fighting workplace abuses: An introduction to criminal prosecutions of wage theft and other employer crimes against workers
-
When corporations deceive and cheat workers, consumer laws should be used to protect workers
-
Making Connecticut a leader among states in curbing the misuse of noncompete agreements
-
The Oregon Just Enforcement Act could meaningfully improve employer compliance with workplace laws
-
State attorneys general taking on protection of workers’ rights
-
State Attorneys General as Protectors of Workers’ Rights
-
Workers’ rights protection and enforcement by state attorneys general: State AG labor rights activities from 2018 to 2020
-
Protecting workers through publicity during the pandemic
-
State and local labor standards enforcement during COVID-19: Protecting workers’ health and economic security during a pandemic
-
How state attorneys general are protecting workers during the coronavirus pandemic
-
A Trump attack on government, flying largely under the radar: Trump wants to help corporations suspected of violating the law
-
Welcome developments on limiting noncompete agreements: A growing consensus leads to new state laws, a possible FTC rule making, and a strong bipartisan Senate bill
-
Misleading and biased research: Why a report on arbitration by a Chamber of Commerce affiliate is just plain wrong
-
State attorneys general can play key roles in protecting workers’ rights