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Wages Against Essential Work

Our undervaluation of traditionally female work is coming home to roost

July 9, 2020 • by Alissa G. Karl

The streets around Highland Hospital, a few blocks from my house in Rochester, New York, are lined with signage “thanking” and “supporting” the “essential” workers who labor there. Many signs are hand-made, propped on porches or taped to light poles; others are mass-produced, like campaign signs, anchored into residential lawns. ...

New York City

Time for a Real Look at How the New York State Workers’ Compensation System Treats Workers

February 16, 2020 • by James Parrott

Improvements in reducing workplace injuries have slowed in many industries, particularly those employing low-wage workers, and New York has seen a disturbing rise in fatal workplace injuries in recent years. More than half of those receiving payments for lost worktime injuries are low-wage workers, and, prior to injury, three-fourths earned ...

Workers Compensation

Wages Against Essential Work

Our undervaluation of traditionally female work is coming home to roost

Time for a Real Look at How the New York State Workers’ Compensation System Treats Workers

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