When Congress finally passed a $900 billion stimulus package in December, extending eviction moratoriums, unemployment insurance and stimulus checks, it notably left one provision out: paid leave.
It was a policy that last year brought the United States as close as it had ever come to offering a universal policy already available in many countries in Europe and around the world that allowed workers to take time off if they felt sick. During a pandemic, such a policy was paramount.
Studies found that paid leave effectively curbed the spread of the virus. Without it, many low-wage workers who rely on their jobs to keep their families fed may have gone to work anyway. Still, only about 20 percent of workers were covered because of an exemption that allowed companies with fewer than 50 employees or more than 500 to skirt the rule.
By Tony Perkins | January 20, 2021 | 4:06pm EST
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia is interviewed by Dagen McDowell during FOX Business Network s Mornings With Maria. (Photo credit: John Lamparski/Getty Images)
When frustrated people decided to take things into their own hands Jan. 6, a lot of Americans got hurt. There were the actual victims the men and women who lost their lives and others who were injured.
But because of the Left s double standard, there were also good and decent Americans who will have to live with the fallout of what happened, even if they condemned the lawlessness. Some were there like the peaceful protesters who desperately wanted to be counted. Others weren t, but they were just as concerned about the future of elections after what happened in November. But the group that will suffer most are the people who deserve it least: the hard-working men and women of the Trump administration, who spent four long years trying t
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TAKING THE REINS “Jaime Harrison Said to Be Pick for Next D.N.C. Chair,” NYT: “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to name Jaime Harrison as his pick to lead the Democratic National Committee, part of an effort to bolster the committee ahead of what are already expected to be challenging midterm elections for the party …
The Department of Labor announced Jan. 12 that it has finalized a rule that would raise the four mandatory wage levels for H-1B workers, in an attempt to prevent abuse of the program by employers.
The new rule, which goes into effect 60 days after it is entered into the Federal Register, also applies to EB-2 and EB-3 visa applicants, H1B1 workers from Singapore and Chile, and E-3 visa holders from Australia. The majority of H-1B visas are held by highly-skilled workers from India.
âThe U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,â said Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia in a press statement.