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How to Save the Restaurant Workforce From Being Casualties of The Covid-19 Crisis

Leave a Comment / restaurant workers / By max cyril

As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept through cities across the country, restaurants have been forced to shut down indefinitely—or slashed their workforces and reduced their operations to threadbare delivery and take-out only services. Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, an advocacy group for restaurant workers and other tipped service employees (including Uber and Doordash drivers, …

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How Will Workplaces Recover From COVID-19?

Leave a Comment / economy / By max cyril

As of May 25, 2020, there were over 1.6 million cases of COVID-19 in the US. At a survival rate of 98.6% (calculated for New York) most of these people will recover and live healthy lives again. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of businesses that were locked down to control the spread of the …

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Common Workplace Issues And Employee Rights To Remember

Leave a Comment / workplace issues / By max cyril

It is practically impossible to not experience conflicts of one sort or the other in the workplace. This is why there are laws that protect employees in their workplaces, irrespective of the personal dispositions of said employees. Common Workplace Issues 1. Workplace Politics A pointer of workplace politics is favoritism. You might notice some favoritism …

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Arranging Your Warehouse To Increase Productivity

1 Comment / productivity / By max cyril

Your company’s warehouse is one of the primary factors in its success. Like any other machine, all of the components need to work together smoothly to achieve the best results. If an axle is bent ever so slightly out of alignment, it can have catastrophic consequences for the entire system. Likewise, if your warehousing practices …

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Another 2.1 million seek new jobless benefits. Pandemic Recession will stick it to millennials

Leave a Comment / Millennials, unemployment / By max cyril

The Department of Labor reported Thursday that yet another2.1 million Americans, on a seasonally adjusted basis, applied for initial state benefits in the week that ended May 23. Counting these new applications makes for a total of 40.5 million workers who have filed for initial benefits over the past 10 weeks. Add in the millions of Americans who are receiving benefits …

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2.1 million new unemployment claims filed last week, as workers still struggle to get benefits

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The ten-week total for claims reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of the workforce has lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Workers filed 2.1 million new unemployment claims last week, the Department of Labor reported, suggesting about a quarter of the workforce is seeking jobless aid to weather the economic crisis caused by the …

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We need strong policy now to avert a depression, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / furloughs / By max cyril

We know that unemployment is sky-high, but that’s not the end of the story. The Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz sounds a warning that, if lawmakers don’t act, we’re looking at a depression. “If the federal government provides sufficient aid during this crisis so that people’s income doesn’t drop dramatically (even if they have been unable to …

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America’s economic pain arrives on K Street

Leave a Comment / layoffs / By max cyril

Layoffs are happening, and a survey of trade groups shows revenue is down sharply at many of them. Restaurants, hotels and tourism businesses are getting socked. Now their Washington lobbyists are, too. K Street is in cutback mode: The International Franchise Association, the U.S. Travel Association and the National Rifle Association have all laid off staffers …

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Trump expected to broaden foreign worker bans

Leave a Comment / Migrant Workers / By max cyril

The president has already barred many foreign workers during the coronavirus pandemic, but he is facing pressure from conservatives to go further. President Donald Trump is expected to extend and expand restrictions on foreign workers coming into the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, aiming to appease a frustrated political base as Americans try to …

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