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Unstable, unpredictable, and insufficient: Work scheduling in the service sector in New England
Research Brief The labor of workers in the retail and food service sector – employed at grocery stores, fast food…
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Olive Garden’s Expansion Of Paid Sick Leave During COVID-19 Reduced The Share Of Employees Working While Sick
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused public and policy attention on the acute lack of paid sick leave for service-sector workers…
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Early Career Workers in the Service Sector
The early career period is an important time for launching one’s career trajectory. The service sector is a common setting…
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Half of Service Sector Workers Are Not Yet Vaccinated for COVID-19: What Gets in the Way?
We find that half of frontline, service sector workers reported being unvaccinated as of early June 2021.
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Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector
This brief examines service sector workers’ need for and use of paid family and medical leave during the COVID19 pandemic.
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Inequalities At Work And The Toll Of COVID-19
Workplaces shape risk for exposure to COVID-19 through on-site safety practices, including the provision and required use of personal protective…
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Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year 2 Worker Impact Report
On July 1, 2017, Seattle implemented one of the nation’s first laws mandating schedule predictability for a subset of workers.…
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Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project
In the midst of a global pandemic, Paid Sick Leave is not just a convenience, but an important policy to…
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COVID-19 Safety Measures Update
We surveyed 8,422 workers at 32 of the largest retail and food service firms at two points in time -…
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Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling?: The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers
Work schedules in the service sector are often unstable and unpredictable. Chronic uncertainty about the timing of work shifts impedes…
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Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements
Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents…
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Unemployed Without a Net
In this brief, we address key questions about the Unemployment Insurance response to the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic.
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