This brief examines service sector workers’ need for and use of paid family and medical leave during the COVID19 pandemic.
Workplaces shape risk for exposure to COVID-19 through on-site safety practices, including the provision and required use of personal protective…
On July 1, 2017, Seattle implemented one of the nation’s first laws mandating schedule predictability for a subset of workers.…
In the midst of a global pandemic, Paid Sick Leave is not just a convenience, but an important policy to…
We surveyed 8,422 workers at 32 of the largest retail and food service firms at two points in time -…
Work schedules in the service sector are often unstable and unpredictable. Chronic uncertainty about the timing of work shifts impedes…
Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents…
In this brief, we address key questions about the Unemployment Insurance response to the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic.
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly…
This report provides a detailed accounting of job conditions for workers in the service sector, drawing on data from The…
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of…
In this research brief, we draw on Shift survey data that gives an early and nearly real-time view into employer…