There are six jobless workers for every job that is open. The official unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent and is expected to top 10 percent in the coming months. By the end of this month, some 400,000 workers will run out of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits—another 1 million by the end of the year. …
Congress Moves to Extend Unemployment Insurance to Hard-Hit States Read More »
The Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform proposal released this morning falls far short of the comprehensive reform that would provide working families with the quality and affordable health they desperately need, say health care advocates. In a statement this morning, outgoing AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says the bill “fails to meet the most basic …
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More than 100 nurses, wearing surgical masks and carrying signs that read “Nurses and Patients Demand Swine Flu Protection,” rallied Wednesday at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center to spotlight unsafe practices in treating H1N1 (swine) flu patients and protecting health care workers and other patients. The nurses, members of the …
Using a combination of integrated, team-based care and technology, Kaiser Permanente of Southern California developed a Healthy Bones initiative that not only reduced fractures in the most at-risk patients by 37 percent, but lowered the care cost for the same patients by 30 percent. Similar Kaiser programs have reduced heart disease deaths and treatment costs …
Kaiser Model Shows the Way to Improving Health Care Delivery Read More »
Thousands of longshore workers, truck drivers and other workers at ports across the nation are out of work, not because of a staggering economy, but because they are caught up in a backlogged, inefficient and often inaccurate screening process for background security checks. According to a new report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), …
Report: Security Screening Process Flawed, Leaves Dockworkers Jobless Read More »
The WARN Act, passed in 1988, was supposed to require employers to give workers and the surrounding community a 60-day advance notice of mass layoffs, providing workers a head start in preparing to find another job and communities a chance to brace for the economic impact. But loopholes, exceptions and weak enforcement have undermined the …
New Plant Closing Bill: FOREWARNED is Better Armed Read More »
The H1N1 (swine flu) virus is now the first global flu pandemic in 41 years. The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday declared the virus a Phase-6 pandemic, its highest level of warning. The declaration means the virus has circled the globe and poses a threat to spread more rapidly among populations. So far, there have …
Now Labeled a Pandemic, Swine Flu Poses Threat to Health Care Workers Read More »
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.
