Governor Kathy Hochul signs LGBTQ+ protections bills and holds media availability at LGBT Community Center. – New York, NY – November 16, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Denis Slattery, NY Daily News ALBANY — Gov. Hochul doesn’t want auld work acquaintances to be forgot. Commuters should resolve in 2022 to return to their Manhattan workspaces, Hochul told […]
Now that the inauguration has passed and the Biden administration has begun its work, it is a good time for retailers to take stock of the labor and employment issues that are likely to assume prominence in 2021, and to consider preparing to meet the challenges each of these issues pose. In no particular order, […]
By Emma Specter, Vogue It’s been a long and often painful year and a half for domestic workers. When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in the U.S., many childcare workers, health aides, housekeepers, and others who provide in-home care were abruptly let go without severance. Even those who kept their jobs were faced with an […]
By Maeve Reston, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) – For more than a year on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential contenders spoke at nearly every event about the number of families in America who were living at the precipice, one paycheck away from losing everything — even as the economy was booming. Now […]