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Despite Labor Shortages, Workers See Few Gains in Economic Security

The pandemic has supposedly given service workers leverage. But many still have unstable hours and incomes because employers like the flexibility.

Workers don’t know their schedules until the last minute. That’s a big problem

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Minority Shift Workers More Unlikely to Face Unstable Schedules

The pandemic has worsened shift stability, new research said.
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In stores and restaurants, the staff serving the public may be ill with COVID-19 because their bosses want them to keep working, say employees

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‘Just wear a mask and don’t tell anyone’: Workplaces are filling up with sick employees

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Americans are showing up sick to work even as Omicron spreads

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Wall Street Journal

Omicron Wave Drives Surge of Workers Calling In Sick, Working Through Illness

Almost 8.8 million Americans were out sick or caring for someone with Covid-19 in early January

The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Isolating.

Many workers with COVID-19 still—still!—can’t afford to isolate, because they don’t have paid sick leave.

Despite COVID, paid sick time for service workers hasn’t grown much, survey says.

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Cost of masks and tests deepens a pandemic wedge between the haves and the have-nots.

For some, the added financial burden of N95 masks and rapid tests is an irritation but still affordable. To others, it is an economic impossibility.
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