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Unions warn small business rescue changes will weaken paycheck protection

Mnuchin touted the program during a congressional hearing as having kept “tens of millions of employees connected to their jobs.”  Labor groups are warning that newly enacted changes to a popular small business lending program will make the $670 billion relief effort less about protecting workers’ paychecks than protecting businesses. The bipartisan bill signed into …

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Public outrage gets results after Kroger tries to take back emergency payments to some workers

When the independent news site Tennessee Holler tweeted a letter from Kroger to an employee, clawing back $461.60 in “overpaid” emergency pay and even threatening “further collection efforts,” outrage ensued. As it should. But the good news is, Kroger quickly paid attention to that outrage and backed off. “We’ve instructed our payroll department to directly inform the small number …

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Extended Emergency Unemployment Compensation Will Expire for 2.1 Million Recipients on December 29

This morning Meteor Blades reported that Jobless benefits claims drop again, but numbers could be skewed by holiday closures of state offices, including this sad news for those whose base unemployment payments have been used up: Come Saturday, if the president and congressional leaders do not come to agreement on fiscal matters, some 2.1 million people will …

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Madeline Messa

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.