Work in the Time of Coronavirus Belabored Stories.

The article discusses Covid-19 pandemic has left some employees to work from home and some employees were laid off in the U.S. It mentions that several workers have no access to unemployment benefits, paid leave, or overtime pay; and workers who contract COVID-19 will likely have to cope without acc...

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Publicado en:Dissent (0012-3846) Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 125 - 148
Autores principales: Jaffe, Sarah, Chen, Michelle
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2020
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Sumario:The article discusses Covid-19 pandemic has left some employees to work from home and some employees were laid off in the U.S. It mentions that several workers have no access to unemployment benefits, paid leave, or overtime pay; and workers who contract COVID-19 will likely have to cope without access to basic health insurance or Medicaid. It mentions that taxi drivers were already struggling before the pandemic, with the collapse of the medallion market, a licensing system that drove cabbies into deep debt and competition from Uber and Lyft cars.