Fear of Losing Health Insurance Keeps 1 in 6 Workers in Their Jobs: Survey by Colleen Fleiss on May 6, 2021 at 11:44 PM
In the United States, 16% of adult workers are staying in jobs they might otherwise leave out of fear of losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, revealed a new West Health-Gallup survey of more than 3,800 U.S. adults.
But the most likely to stay in a job they would rather leave are those workers in households earning less than $48,000 a year roughly 3 in 10 (28%) say they will not leave and risk losing their health benefits. Workers in lower income households are nearly three times more likely to stay in an unwanted job than are workers living in households earning at least $120,000 per year.
Google Advised Mental Health Care by Angela Mohan on March 11, 2021 at 9:21 AM
Google advised its employees to go for mental health counselling or apply leave when they complained about racism or sexual harassment at workplace, the media reported.
According to NBC News, Google s human resources (HR) department encouraged them to take mental health leave, even when their complaints were unrelated to such concerns. They consulted human resources after colleagues made comments about their skin colour or Black hairstyles or asked if they were sexually interested in their teammates. They also contacted human resources to report retaliation after protesting sexual harassment issues and to advocate for raises for Black people to match white employees pay, the report said on Sunday.