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How Cuts to Unemployment Benefits Will Hurt Rural People

Leave a Comment / Rural America, unemployment / By max cyril

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Republican governors in at least 22 states are ending federal unemployment assistance. The cuts will hit hard in rural areas and communities of color. After Lisa Wilkinson, 54, got laid off from her factory job in December 2019, she knew it would be difficult to …

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Guide to Disability Benefits Under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

Leave a Comment / disability, retirement / By max cyril

The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is the primary retirement plan for federal employees. Congress created this plan in 1986 to replace the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), which had existed since 1920. FERS covers all employees who joined the federal service on and after January 1, 1987. One of the most important components of FERS is …

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UBER’S NEW GIG WORKER BILL IS THE SAME OLD TRICK: DEREGULATION AND SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR EXPLOITIVE COMPANIES

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Independant Contractors, unions / By max cyril

In New York State, legislators are reportedly considering a bill, brokered by gig companies including Uber and Lyft, that would remove app-based drivers and food delivery workers from virtually all labor and discrimination protections. Though its supporters are selling this “Right to Bargain Act” as a novel form of bargaining in the app-based economy, there’s nothing …

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Amazon makes tiny tweak to ‘time off task’ policy following report on high injury rates

Leave a Comment / OSHA, workplace safety / By max cyril

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CEO pay rises, average worker pay stagnates, this week, year, decade in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Income inequality / By max cyril

The pandemic did not change rising economic inequality in the United States—go figure. We’ve seen again and again how existing inequalities instead were exacerbated as people who could work remotely did so and stayed relatively safe while others had to put their health and safety on the line to keep scraping by, as women have been …

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Why Climate Plans Must Include Farmers of Color

Leave a Comment / Agriculture, Climate Change / By max cyril

Proposed legislation would give farms resources to fight climate change. Will farmers of color get equal access? Marvin Frink looks out at his Black Angus cattle farm as the sun is coming up and ponders what’s on the horizon. He and his wife Tanisha started Briarwood Cattle Farm in Raeford, N.C. 10 years ago after Marvin was …

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The insidious deception that is “employment at will”

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act, whistleblower / By max cyril

Employers, don’t get played. “This is an employment-at-will state, and I can fire you for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.” Oh, yeah? Technically, this is true in almost every state, but employers should not count on employment at will as their only defense in an unlawful discharge case. Why? …

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Addressing Mental Health in the Workforce

Leave a Comment / liability, mental health, Pandemic, productivity / By max cyril

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. After fifteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic – which has placed unprecedented stress on Americans dealing with isolation and fear, while juggling closed schools and businesses, homeschooling children, working from home, and economic uncertainty, including ensuring basic necessities – Americans are struggling to recover. One study published by the …

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When These Workers Unionized, Their Cafe Was Put Up for Sale—So They Bought It

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unions / By max cyril

PROVIDENCE, R.I.?—?Five former White Electric Coffee workers gather at the Dexter Training Grounds next to the Providence Armory, slightly stunned. Earlier that morning, April 14, they signed the purchase agreement to own the café. In just 10 months, this small group of baristas went from forming a union to creating a workers cooperative to buying the business for around half a million dollars. …

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