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Media Advisory: Workplace Fairness Blog Offers Timely Information for Workers
Workplace Fairness is #1 Most Comprehensive Online Resource for Information About Workplace Rights
WASHINGTON (July 7, 2020)
Dear Journalists,
Please share these Workplace Fairness blog posts with your readers.
WHAT:
The national nonprofit, Workplace Fairness (WF), advocates for workers' rights and offers recent blog posts of interest:
- Federal Role in Enforcing Unemployment Rights of Workers Who Refuse Unsafe Work
- Lack of child care is keeping women on unemployment rolls
- 10 Must-Do’s to Make Working from Home an Asset for You & Your Employer
WHERE:
Today’s Workplace, the Workplace Fairness Blog at https://www.workplacefairness.org/blog/
- Labor Secretary Scalia Wrongly Rejects Federal Role in Enforcing Unemployment Rights of Workers Who Refuse Unsafe Work – by Maurice Emsellem
Excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the structural challenges that have plagued the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) system for decades. Reduced federal funding starved the program of the resources needed to upgrade its antiquated IT infrastructure, causing state systems to slow to a crawl and crash amid the unprecedented volume of claims over the last three months. More
- Coronavirus is a childcare crisis that could wipe out women’s progress toward equality – by Laura Clawson
Excerpt: The coronavirus pandemic has hit working parents hard, and when I say working parents, I mean mostly working mothers. Unemployment is high for everyone, but it’s worse for women than for men, and women are more likely to have left the labor market or to be thinking about quitting their jobs. Relatedly, the brunt of caring for children suddenly at home all day every day is falling on women. More
- When Your Employer Asks You to Work from Home! Are You Prepared? – by Heidi Allison
Excerpt: Make working from home an asset for you & your employer. You have dreamt of this and now it is happening. Maybe not for the best reasons, but you may be asked to work from home in the near future. Are you prepared? Once it happens and your company realizes that it is business as usual without the presence of all employees, it might be a good idea to make sure you exceed your bosses’ expectations. More
Workplace Fairness publishes a weekly newsletter, Workplace Week, which covers news and commentary on critical issues affecting employees and their advocates. Find helpful and more comprehensive information at https://www.workplacefairness.org/
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WF Note: You can help us in our effort to support employees, as they navigate these unchartered waters, by making a donation today. No amount is too small or too large. Together, we can ensure that individual workers are protected and empowered! Click here to make your contribution now! With your support, we can continue to meet the changing needs of workers across the country. We can continue to expand our online platform with new and updated resources, and we can build new programs and projects that will help us reach more workers and provide even more help and information to America’s workforce. We hope you will consider making a financial contribution to help improve workplace fairness across the nation. For more information about Workplace Fairness or how to support/donate to the organization, please contact Carole Bernard, Administrative and Development Director, at carole@workplacefairness.org.
About Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness is a nonprofit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. The organization’s mission is to educate workers and their advocates about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems and that policymakers, members of the business community and the public view the fair treatment of workers as both good business practice and sound public policy.
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