Monkeypox Is a Workers’ Rights Issue
The outbreak of monkeypox shows that workers need protections like paid leave and just cause to help protect public health.
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It’s Time For Mandated Maternity and Paternity Leave
Ask any parent and they’ll tell you that having a child changes everything. It shifts your priorities. It changes the way you look at life, the world, and your place in it. Unfortunately, though, not all employers are willing to accommodate the many profound transformations that occur when an employee becomes a parent — and …
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‘Can we find a deal?’: Coronavirus sparks debate over paid leave
Democrats, Republicans and corporate America are coalescing behind a federal paid leave policy for the first time in the U.S., one of few rich nations where workers aren’t automatically provided the benefit. But as they hammer out the details, fracture lines are already emerging that could derail the decades-long effort once again. President Joe Biden’s …
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Amazon’s Unlimited Unpaid Time Off Ends May 1, and Workers Say That Could Be Deadly
Amazon warehouse workers across the country today decried the company’s decision to end a policy of unlimited unpaid time off, and said that working conditions inside Amazon fulfillment centers are putting their lives at risk. Employees from New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan and New York, working with Athena Coalition, said on a call today that a policy …
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Know Your Rights to Paid Leave and Unemployment During the COVID-19 Crisis
On March 18 Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), in part to discourage layoffs and in part to guarantee paid leave to workers who need to stay home due to the COVID-19 emergency. On March 27 Congress enacted the CARES Act to expand unemployment insurance eligibility and benefits. Both laws expire on December …
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Amazon Says It’s Giving Part-Time Workers PTO—But There May Be a Catch
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon has rolled out a new policy that extends paid time off to thousands of part-time operations employees. The change follows a months-long campaign by workers in Amazon’s last-mile delivery stations to demand PTO, touted in the company’s public communications as an “essential” benefit offered to all its workers. After …
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Worried Call Center Workers Do Not Understand Why They Are Risking Their Lives for Customer Service
As the coronavirus has shuttered swaths of America’s offices, many workers in corporate call centers say they are still expected to work, risking their own health. Call centers have been deemed “essential” by the Department of Homeland Security, but employees with little paid sick leave say they feel forced to work, in constant fear of infection, in …
Corona and Class Warfare Part II: Stopping a Multi-Dollar CEO Pension Tax Break
Last week I asked everyone to consider the coronavirus pandemic as a pretty clarifying picture of class warfare—who are the people who get hurt most when millions of jobs go away or at best are in limbo because of a nationwide shutdown? It’s working people, minimum wage workers, service workers—almost none of whom have enough …
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The Narrow, Ineffective and Wholly Inadequate U.S. Debate about Paid Sick Leave
In the rush — or at least the pretense of rush — to bring immediate economic relief to the millions of average workers gutted by the tanking global economy brought on by the coronavirus, Democratic Party elites and centrist papers of record Washington Post and New York Times are cementing the terms of the debate to a narrow, ineffective, and …
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Coronavirus is a huge labor issue, this week in the war on workers
Thanks largely to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, workers’ issues are getting a lot of attention as the United States confronts coronavirus. We’ll see what Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell do with it, but Democrats (and COVID-19) have managed to get paid sick leave and paid family leave into the national …
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