The effects of the pandemic forced many working mothers into an unstable informal workforce, working for companies like OnlyFans and Uber, but formal employers can win them back.
Recent findings from Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco show fast-food companies faring worst at staff vaccination rates compared to retail and service firms.
Many service sector employees do not receive paid time off or any form of sick leave. Thus, employees without this benefit could experience financial hardship if they needed to take time off due to side effects from the vaccine.
Amazon reinstated a mask mandate for all employees in its U.S. warehouses starting on Wednesday, as the Omicron variant spreads nationwide and the company makes a final shipping push before Christmas.
Companies are struggling to figure out what to do as legal battles and rising Covid cases complicate their plans. Even up in the air: What does “fully vaccinated” mean?
As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.
Current and former staff at some Red Lobster restaurants say they’ve worked while they’re ill during the COVID-19 epidemic – in some cases because of a lack of paid sick leave or because they were unable to meet management requests to find cover.
