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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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Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly…
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Essential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California’s Service Sector
This report provides a detailed accounting of job conditions for workers in the service sector, drawing on data from The…
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What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of…
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Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-Related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers
In this research brief, we draw on Shift survey data that gives an early and nearly real-time view into employer…
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