News: Winner of 2026 Employment Law Scholarship
June 10, 2026
By Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D.
The Charles E. Joseph Employment Law Scholarship awards $1,000 to a law student who plans to become an employment lawyer.
Working Now and Then awarded the eighth annual Charles E. Joseph Employment Law scholarship in June 2026. The $1,000 scholarship provides financial support to incoming or current law students considering careers in plaintiffs’ employment law. For the 2026/2027 academic year, the scholarship will go to Caroline Boschetto.
“I am thrilled to receive this news,” says Boschetto. “Thank you so much to Charles E. Joseph for this generous scholarship! It will truly make a difference for me in making law school more financially accessible.”
In the fall, Boschetto will attend Northeastern University Law as part of the Class of 2030.
Boschetto’s essay advocates for the labor rights of agricultural workers by investigating the history of the systematic exploitation of farmworkers. Drawing on her experience as a legislative liaison for a farmworker advocacy organization, Boschetto conveys the urgency of the crisis in her winning essay.
“My background in farmworker and immigrant advocacy work has exposed me to the sobering reality that labor rights violations among vulnerable populations often go unchecked,” Boschetto says. “For this reason, it is my goal to become an employment law attorney in order to defend the labor rights of workers in most need of protection.”
Borschetto adds, “I firmly believe that all workers in the U.S., regardless of their demographic or industry, deserve to have their legal rights and humanity respected.”
A record-breaking number of applicants submitted materials for the 2026 scholarship cycle. In order to choose the winner, the scholarship committee reviewed essays on the biggest challenge facing workers’ rights.
Boschetto’s essay will be featured on the Working Now and Then blog.
“It’s an important essay,” notes Charles Joseph. “Helping farm workers is direct, compelling, and urgent.”
“I am so grateful to Charles E. Joseph for this generous scholarship which will help make achieving my law school and career dreams possible,” Boschetto shares. “Thank you for believing in me and for investing in labor justice!”
In 2026, the scholarship committee also recognized runner-up Clayton Wong, a rising 2L at St. Mary’s University School of Law.
Wong’s essay argues that employment protections rose in response to the “physical dangers of the twentieth-century factory.” Yet an “invisible architecture of control” defines today’s workplace, which requires new protections and legal strategies.
The scholarship, named for Working Now and Then founder Charles Joseph, supports future employment attorneys fighting for workers’ rights. It also recognizes exceptional law students with bright futures in the field.
The WNT Blog will publish essays from winner Caroline Boschetto, runner-up Clayton Wong, and several honorable mentions. The series, titled Law Students on Workers’ Rights, will begin publication in late June 2026.
In addition to the law student scholarship, the Working Now and Then Undergraduate Scholarship will award a $1,000 scholarship to an undergraduate student considering a career in employment law in December 2026.
Working Now and Then is a resource on workers’ rights. Charles Joseph, the founder of Working Now and Then, also founded the New York employment law firm Joseph & Kirschenbaum.