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National Employment Law Project
90 Broad Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10004
As the U.S. faces the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the health and safety and economic security of working people and our communities is threatened to perhaps an unprecedented degree. But at the same time, workers, community members, and coalitions are coming together to support and protect each other in ways that are also new, rapidly evolving, and often stunning.
In this moment and always, NELP will fight for solutions that meet the needs of people in the greatest danger, including, among others, Black and Indigenous people and people of color; immigrants in tenuous job situations; “gig” and temp workers; workers in low-wage jobs; service, airport, grocery, maintenance, healthcare, and homecare workers; people who are immunocompromised; and elderly people. Our goals include securing and strengthening the unemployment insurance, paid sick days, and paid leave that workers need during this crisis and beyond, protecting workers’ health and safety, and fighting the deep structural inequities in our system in the short and long term.
Through our website, Facebook page, and Twitter (@NELPnews), we will share resources and information on mobilization for call-in days; updates on legislation; and our take on policies.
Thank you for your support during this challenging time.
In Solidarity,
Rebecca Dixon,
NELP Executive Director
Worker Safety & Health During COVID-19 Pandemic: Rights & Resources
Immigrant Workers’ Eligibility for Unemployment Insurance
Spanish: Elegibilidad de Trabajadores Inmigrantes Para Seguro de Desempleo
Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
Understanding the Unemployment Provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Independent Contractors and COVID-19: Working Without Protections
Spanish: CONTRATISTAS INDEPENDIENTES Y COVID-19: TRABAJANDO SINPROTECCIÓN
Independent Contractors and COVID-19: Working Without Protections
Unemployment Insurance Protections in Response to COVID-19: State Developments
Enact Policies to Protect Workers as U.S. Faces Coronavirus
Unemployment Insurance and Coronavirus – Options for Policymakers to Mitigate Job Loss
Rebooting Disaster Unemployment Assistance – Steps for State and Federal Policymakers
We Need a Czar to Protect Health Care Workers
Unemployment Insurance Was Crucial to Workers and the Economy in the Last Recession
Precarious at Work, Precarious in Health
COVID-19 and Unemployment Insurance
Supporting the COVID-19 Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2020
NELP Commends Relief for Workers in Coronavirus Package, Calls for More to Be Done
Workers Call on Congress to Meet Urgent Needs; Families First Coronavirus Response Act a First Step
NELP Applauds Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave Bill That Rises to the Moment
COVID-19 Update for Temp Workers (Temp Worker Justice)
Local Government Authority in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic (Local Solutions Support Center)
“The coronavirus has shined a light on the fragility and inadequacy of our worker health policies. We have an opportunity to come together and ensure that all people have the health care, paid sick leave, and economic security to guarantee their health and safety. Worker health is public health.”- Rebecca Dixon, NELP Executive Director
The Hill, Op-Ed
“I’m terrified that states aren’t recession-ready anymore. States have reduced the amount of benefits and access to benefits in a way that means that very few people can apply for unemployment insurance and receive it.” -Michele Evermore, NELP Senior Policy Analyst
Washington Post
“In this emergency, I would not discourage anyone from trying to apply for benefits, even if they wouldn’t have applied before,” Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst for the National Employment Law Project, tells CNBC Make It.
CNBC
“Ten U.S. states have reduced the maximum length of time that job seekers can collect unemployment benefits, from the typical length of 26 weeks to between 12 and 21 weeks. Most states require consumers to wait at least a week before they can receive unemployment benefits,” said Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project’s office in Washington.
NYTimes/Reuters
Judy Conti, government affairs director at the National Employment Law Project, said fast food workers are in the same boat as other low-wage and hourly employees, including some who deal with at-risk populations like elder care workers.
ABC News
National Employment Law Project
90 Broad Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10004
