COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT NO. SJC-13237

The Petitions Would Greatly Undermine the Ability of Drivers to Access the Protections of the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Law. [...] The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) fights for gender justice—in the courts, in public policy, and in our society—working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. [...] Since 1972, NWLC has used the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers to women’s equality in the workplace, like misclassification, that harm all of us—especially women of color. [...] 18 The misleading summaries deprive the people of Massachusetts of the information required to meaningfully express their will on the ballot question, as it is not clear from the summaries that the Petitions would foreclose drivers from many critical workplace protections. [...] For example, nearly two decades prior to the passage of the federal Equal Pay Act, the Commonwealth in 1945 became the first state in the country to pass an equal pay law: the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, M.