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The coronavirus triggered 'sudden and devastating unemployment' among nannies, most of whom are women of color and their families' primary wage earners
About 95% of nannies are paid off the books, which makes them ineligible for unemployment insurance…
Rhea Mahbubani
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3 ways to fix the economy for essential workers, according to a leading labor activist
"If there is a set of workers who are unprotected and highly insecure," it's a risk to us all, acco…
Juliana Kaplan
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Nannies fear taking a day off from work even if the families that employ them are sick with COVID-19: 'We can't afford it'
Nannies were in full demand amid childcare shortages and the return to the workplace. They say thei…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Ethiopian maids are being dumped onto the street by once wealthy Lebanese families who can no longer afford servants
Employers have been abandoning their penniless servants from Africa because the coronavirus pandemi…
Thomas Colson
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America's Second Fastest-Growing Job Pays Less Than $10 An Hour
But even though the Bureau of Labor Statistics has predicted the job to be the second fastest-growi…
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What is Prime Minister health insurance scheme?
Here is what you must know about the scheme and the eligibility criteria that will help you bene…
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These 8 non-union worker organizations are quietly leading the new labor movement
Many of these workers aren't represented under the National Labor Relations Act, a 1935 law that se…
Allana Akhtar
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Placement agencies will help hire domestic help soon
The new rule might include paid leave and other benefits for those people. If new rules got impleme…
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COVID-19 cost women over $800 billion in lost income — more than the combined wealth of 98 countries
Globally, women lost more than 64 million jobs last year. That’s a loss of 5% for women, compar…
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An Idaho potato farm threatened to fire foreign workers and deport them to Mexico if they didn't accept wages below the legal limit, the DOL says
The farm also didn't meet housing health and safety standards, provide wage statements to workers, …
Grace Dean
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Essential workers in 25 cities are going on a 'Strike for Black Lives'
Teachers, farmers, fast food workers, domestic workers, and others with the SEIU, AFT, and other gr…
Allana Akhtar
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Indonesia Pays Nearly $2 Million In 'Blood Money' To Free Maid In Saudi Arabia
Hundreds of mostly female Indonesian migrant workers go abroad in search of work every year, but of…
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Russia to recruit foreigners in neighboring countries to beef up its army depleted by 300,000 war casualties, says the UK Defense Ministry
Russia's war casualties are approaching 300,000, say US officials, and Putin wants to avoid an unpo…
Rebecca Rommen
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Rihanna, Jack Dorsey pledge USD 4.2 million for domestic violence victims amid COVID-19 crisis
CLF and Dorsey are each committing USD 2.1 million for a total of USD 4.2 million, in a joint grant…
PTI
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COVID-19: GoAir offers to fly migrant workers to home states during lockdown
"In response to their plight and after seeing scenes of workers trying to walk hundreds of kilometr…
PTI
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Apple reportedly threatened to boot Facebook from the App Store over human trafficking concerns
Apple made the threat after the BBC reported in 2019 a slave market was being hosted online, accord…