Navigating Self-Advocacy With ADHD in the Workplace
Fighting for the opportunities and rights to which you are entitled is not easy but, in the end, it is a necessary and worthwhile endeavor.
Employment
How to Avoid No-Strike Contract Clauses
One thing you can be sure of when bargaining your first contract: management will demand a contract clause barring strikes while the agreement is in effect.
There’s a Good Reason Restaurants Struggle to Find Workers
There’s a reason for all of this, and, despite what you may have been told, it’s not that no one wants to work anymore.
Workers Need Affordable Child Care
Many families with young children must choose among bad options: spending a significant portion of their income on child care or leaving the workforce altogether.
Arizona and Many Other States Begin Legislative Process to Protect Employees Against Discrimination Based on COVID-19 Vaccine Choices (US)
Currently pending before the Arizona legislature, Senate Bill 1648 would prohibit discrimination in the workplace (and elsewhere) against individuals who have not received or who refuse to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. As proposed, the bill would prohibit any employer from requiring a person to receive or disclose whether they have received a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition …
What Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Know, and Where to Find It
Given the wealth of information available online, conducting research on your employer is more possible than ever—and more important than ever, as firms become more complex and globalized. There’s no reason we should ever begin bargaining or start an organizing campaign without a strong sense of who the employer is, how it generates its profit, …
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Trump plan to politicize key civil service jobs has run out of time
It looks like one of Team Trump’s last-minute efforts to destroy the civil service has fizzled. With less than a day to go, the plan to strip protections from tens of thousands of career federal employees hasn’t been put into effect at any federal agency. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management …
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U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August
The unemployment rate dropped to 8.4 percent in August, the Labor Department reported on Friday, marking the fourth month of declines even as the pace of job growth is slowing. The August rate is down from its April peak of 14.7 percent, but still remains far above the 3.5 percent recorded in February, before coronavirus …
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Employment won’t recover for a decade, CBO says
The economic outlook for the next 10 years has “deteriorated significantly” since the CBO issued its last complete set of projections in January. The nation’s unemployment rate will remain stubbornly higher for the next decade than it was before the pandemic, while economic output will be depressed for years under current tax and spending policy, …
Economy Gains 136,000 Jobs in September; Unemployment Declines to 3.5%
The U.S. economy gained 136,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate declined to 3.5%, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In response to the September job numbers, AFL-CIO Chief Economist William Spriggs said: “It is surprising the rate of job creation has slowed, and the rate of labor force participation has …
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