COVID-19

Overcoming Inequality in Unemployment Benefit Access and Utilization

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unemployment, unemployment insurance / By max cyril

History may not repeat itself but it certainly rhymes. Today’s unemployed Black workers face a system of unequal state policies and practices that were created after the Civil War to maintain white supremacy and prevent Black Americans from obtaining wealth. These discriminatory policies drive enormous and persistent wage and wealth gaps, as well as the …

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How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy

Leave a Comment / Childcare, Pandemic / By max cyril

The U.S. government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that childcare workers in the nation have a median salary of just over $24,000 a year—below the poverty line for a family of four. The segment of our nation’s workforce that attends to the basic needs of our children is shockingly underpaid, and now during the coronavirus pandemic, left …

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Unemployment Payments Are Running Out for Millions, Even As Long-Term Unemployment Surges

Leave a Comment / unemployment, unemployment insurance / By max cyril

Large numbers of jobless workers are seeing their unemployment payments come to an end as they reach their maximum weeks of eligibility despite short-term federal extensions. If Congress fails to act, millions more will suffer a total loss of income as their benefits expire at the end of the year. The loss of unemployment payments …

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Workers Fired, Penalized for Reporting COVID Safety Violations

Leave a Comment / Health & Safety, Pandemic, workplace safety / By max cyril

When COVID-19 began making headlines in March, Charles Collins pulled out a protective face mask from the supply at the manufacturing company in Rockaway, New Jersey, where he was the shop foreman and put it on. The dozen or so other workers at the facility followed suit. There was no way to maintain a safe …

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Unemployment is sky-high for young workers in the COVID-19 economy

1 Comment / Pandemic, unemployment, young workers / By max cyril

The Great Recession dragged down Millennials, putting them years behind economically. Now, the COVID-19 recession is damaging another generation of young workers. Workers aged 16 to 24 typically have higher unemployment and underemployment than older workers (and remember here that you only count as unemployed if you’re trying to find work—it’s not like this statistic counts …

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The Nightmare Facing the Poor and Working Class If There’s Not Another Stimulus

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, Stimulus, Trump, Workers / By max cyril

As millions of U.S. workers face unemployment, food insecurity and eviction amid the coronavirus pandemic, the limited aid provided by the federal government’s flawed CARES Act from March has long since dried up. Last week, following more than six months of stalled negotiations with congressional Democrats over a new economic relief package, President Trump abruptly announced he was halting talks until …

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Tracking Remote Employees: How To Not Cross The Line

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, privacy, Remote Work, telecommuters, Telework, workplace privacy / By max cyril

With the COVID-19 on the current agenda, the offline work seems to be far away. However, remote work is trending now because more and more businesses realize which benefits it drives. However, hiring top talent from different parts of the country and saving from rent come with the liabilities of remote working employment law. One …

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OSHA is doing virtually nothing to protect workers in the pandemic

Leave a Comment / Health & Safety, OSHA, Pandemic, workplace safety / By max cyril

Two reports out this week show how badly the Trump administration is failing workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The AFL-CIO’s annual Death on the Job report looks at 9,051 complaints workers have sent the Occupational Safety and Health Administration expressing concern about safety on the job during the pandemic. OSHA has investigated just 198 of them, and 85 of …

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Report: OSHA Investigated, Resolved Only 2% of COVID Retaliation Complaints

Leave a Comment / Health & Safety, OSHA, Pandemic, workplace safety / By max cyril

Washington, DC—Brand-new analysis by Deborah Berkowitz and Shayla Thompson of the National Employment Law Project (NELP) shows that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has failed to protect COVID safety whistleblowers who filed retaliation complaints. NELP analyzed OSHA’s public data showing 1,744 COVID-19-related retaliation complaints filed by workers from April through August 9, and found: …

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What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

Leave a Comment / Teachers / By max cyril

Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back. Demands for students and educators to return to in-person schooling during the pandemic are coming from Democrats and Republicans, both claiming the return is necessary not just to provide high-quality education, but to save …

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