Work

Show Only ...
Maps - Photos - Videos

NPR

|

Workers With Disabilities Can Earn $3.34 An Hour. Agency Says Law Needs Change : NPR

D'Agostino was making so little because, since 1938, U.S. labor law has carved out a rule for some people with disabilities, saying they can be paid less than minimum wage. The New Deal-era law was intended to encourage employment of more people. But a new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says the exemption should be phased out, because it's been trapping workers in "exploitative and discriminatory" job programs.

NPR

|

Payroll Tax Delay May Mean Problems For Workers, Employers And Social Security : NPR

President Trump wants to give a $100 billion boost to the U.S. economy by hitting the "pause" button on workers' payroll taxes.

That would leave more money in people's paychecks. But the move — which Trump ordered over the weekend — is only temporary. And that could produce headaches down the road for workers, employers and the Social Security system.

Unemployment Rates

|

States with the lowest unemployment rates in June 2020: Kentucky (4.3%), Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Maine.

I bet you never would have thought Kentucky would have healthiest economy in America, with an unemployment rate 11.4% below the unemployment rate in New York State (15.7%) and Massachusetts with the worse unemployment in America (17.4%).

Odd times we live in America.

 

Shots – Health News : NPR

|

IRS Rule Change Permits Employers To Give Workers Midyear Insurance Choices : Shots – Health News : NPR

This month, the IRS announced that it would let employees add, drop or alter some of their benefits for the remainder of 2020. But there's a catch: Your employer has to allow the changes.

The new guidance applies to both employers that buy health insurance to cover their workers and those that pay claims on their own, called self-insuring. It's unclear how many employers will take advantage of the new flexibility to offer what amounts to a midyear open-enrollment period. If you're wondering what your company will do, ask.

Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance : NPR

|

Your Boss Is Watching You: Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance : NPR

After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company: Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes, and record the webpages they visited.

They also had to download an app called TSheets to their phones to keep tabs on their whereabouts during work hours.

"There are five of us. And we always came to work. We always came on time. There was no reason to start location-tracking us," the woman told NPR. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing she could lose her job.

Company emails that she provided to NPR show her employer believed the tracking software would improve the team's productivity and efficiency while everyone was working from home.

This why I keep my work laptop just for work stuff and my personal laptop for everything else.