Working Life

I wish I had a dime for every scare tactic used by business over my lifetime — scare tactics to argue against any taxes (“we’ll leave”), or to argue for so-called “free trade” etc. etc…because it’s a bitch when those scare tactics turn out, in reality, to be as substantive as cotton candy. Add sick leave to the list.

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   This is very good news: In a city of secret economies, few are as vital to the life of New York as the business of nannies, the legions of women who emancipate high-powered professionals and less glamorous working parents from the duties of daily child care so they might get to work. Those nannies, […]

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   This seems so logical it is hard to argue against it. It’s too bad that the fear of an epidemic is spurring a sensible policy: In an effort to rein in the spread of the H1N1 flu, Representative George Miller,  the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that […]

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   This shouldn’t be the case but a new report just out this morning from the Center for Economic and Policy Research says this: This report finds that the U.S. is the only country among 22 countries ranked highly in terms of economic and human development that does not guarantee that workers receive paid sick […]

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