The rate reflects parts of the economy reopening in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent in May, amid a push for a reopening economic rally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The economy gained 2.2 million jobs last month, as states started relaxing stay-at-home orders and opening for business. …
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Outbreaks have begun at farms around the country, thanks in large part to crowded employer-provided housing. AVON, N.Y.—Luis Jimenez, 35, works 66 hours a week tending hundreds of calves at a dairy in upstate New York. He sends $800 home to his parents and eight siblings in Oaxaca, Mexico, every two weeks. “We want to …
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced roughly 42.6 million workers onto jobless rolls in just 11 weeks. U.S. workers filed another 1.9 million new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the Department of Labor reported. The coronavirus pandemic has forced roughly 42.6 million workers onto jobless rolls in just 11 weeks. Another 623,000 people applied for …
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Companies can require diagnostic coronavirus tests and temperature checks but the Trump administration hasn’t said when or how often to test. Gaps in federal guidelines and ongoing fears about contaminated workplaces are keeping businesses from reopening the way the White House envisioned a month ago, when it shifted its pandemic message to an economic revival. The …
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In October 1993, Charles Patrick Hayes, or Pat, was working at a grain bin in Defuniak Springs, a small town in southern Alabama near Fairhope, where Pat was raised. Pat was knocking down corn from the walls of the silo when the crop caved off the sides and crushed him. Pat, just 19, suffocated to …
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If you are injured or fall sick as a result of a workplace accident or unsafe conditions, you may be entitled to compensation. Every state has its own laws and regulations surrounding workers’ compensation, but all 50 states have a program in place to protect injured or sick workers. Businesses purchase workers’ compensation insurance, and …
AB 5 enshrined in law the California Supreme Court’s test for distinguishing employees from independent contractors. Voters could get a chance to dissolve California’s controversial worker classification law in 2022. Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), one of the measure’s most ardent opponents in the Legislature, announced he will try to qualify a ballot initiative to repeal …
State and local governments in California have recently signed into law several measures aimed at protecting workers. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order offering additional paid sick leave to food sector workers. At the local level, both the County and City of Los Angeles have now adopted worker retention and …
As many as 400,000 workers could head back to work when New York City begins the first phase of its reopening in June, as the national epicenter of the crisis looks to begin a long recovery from the coronavirus shutdown. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday laid out guidelines for businesses that will be allowed …
Forty-two percent, or 11.6 million, of all jobs lost through April 25 due to Covid-19 will become permanent, according to the University of Chicago. The White House is downplaying the bulk of coronavirus-related layoffs as temporary. But as the worsening recession forces companies to downsize or shut their doors, economists warn that many of these …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
