Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know Blog Defending Worker Safety: Responding to OSHA and MSHA’s Dangerous Rollbacks Press Clips The American Prospect: How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away Search Filters Topic Type Series Date News Release Report: Number of Federal Workplace Safety Inspectors Falls to 45-Year Low This Workers Memorial Day, NELP urges OSHA to ensure employers keep workers safe on the job. April 28, 2020 Blog Unemployment benefit amounts must be high enough to sustain workers in this crisis Providing people with economic security is the answer to economic stability in good times, and to recovery after times of crisis. April 27, 2020 News Release Virginia First State to Enact New Work-Sharing Law During Pandemic to Help Employers Avoid Layoffs Work-sharing is a proven tool to help workers and employers weather economic downturns. April 27, 2020 News Release On Trump Administration’s Proclamation Temporarily Suspending Immigration This move tries to distract from the administration’s incompetent and inadequate response to the pandemic. April 24, 2020 News Release Report: Today’s Unemployment Insurance Crisis and How We Got Here States choosing to reduce access and cut benefits led to current dysfunction. April 21, 2020 Blog Webinar: COVID-19 Resources for Unemployed and Frontline Workers The latest information regarding unemployment insurance, federal legislation, and what it means for workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. April 17, 2020 News Release CDC Guidance Weakens Protections for Essential Workers New CDC guidance allows employers to require essential workers exposed to COVID-19 to continue to work under certain conditions. April 9, 2020 Blog COVID-19 and Unemployment Insurance: An Interview with Rebecca Dixon The interview focused on unemployment insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic. April 9, 2020 Press Clips C-SPAN: Employment Assistance & Coronavirus Pandemic NELP Senior Policy Analyst Michele Evermore discusses unemployment insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic. April 8, 2020 Blog How To Improve the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Application Process The federal Worker Training and Retraining Notice (WARN) Act, or state level WARN acts could help streamline UI. April 8, 2020
Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know
Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
News Release Report: Number of Federal Workplace Safety Inspectors Falls to 45-Year Low This Workers Memorial Day, NELP urges OSHA to ensure employers keep workers safe on the job. April 28, 2020
Blog Unemployment benefit amounts must be high enough to sustain workers in this crisis Providing people with economic security is the answer to economic stability in good times, and to recovery after times of crisis. April 27, 2020
News Release Virginia First State to Enact New Work-Sharing Law During Pandemic to Help Employers Avoid Layoffs Work-sharing is a proven tool to help workers and employers weather economic downturns. April 27, 2020
News Release On Trump Administration’s Proclamation Temporarily Suspending Immigration This move tries to distract from the administration’s incompetent and inadequate response to the pandemic. April 24, 2020
News Release Report: Today’s Unemployment Insurance Crisis and How We Got Here States choosing to reduce access and cut benefits led to current dysfunction. April 21, 2020
Blog Webinar: COVID-19 Resources for Unemployed and Frontline Workers The latest information regarding unemployment insurance, federal legislation, and what it means for workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. April 17, 2020
News Release CDC Guidance Weakens Protections for Essential Workers New CDC guidance allows employers to require essential workers exposed to COVID-19 to continue to work under certain conditions. April 9, 2020
Blog COVID-19 and Unemployment Insurance: An Interview with Rebecca Dixon The interview focused on unemployment insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic. April 9, 2020
Press Clips C-SPAN: Employment Assistance & Coronavirus Pandemic NELP Senior Policy Analyst Michele Evermore discusses unemployment insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic. April 8, 2020
Blog How To Improve the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Application Process The federal Worker Training and Retraining Notice (WARN) Act, or state level WARN acts could help streamline UI. April 8, 2020
