Our data reveals that approximately 182,600 Philadelphia workers currently lack paid sick days.
Our analysis shows that if SB 698 is enacted as drafted with maximum coverage for all workers, it will create modest cost-savings for employers. Employers are projected to see the cost of implementing this new policy defrayed by a reduction in costs associated with employee turnover and reduced contagion of communicable diseases
Thirty-four percent of Philadelphia private-sector employees, or approximately 182,629 workers, lack access to paid sick days.
A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) reveals that more than 700,000 private sector employees in Maryland lack even a single earned sick day.
Heading out this Valentine’s Day? Keep restaurant workers’ well-being in-mind. [...]
Improving Career Opportunities for Immigrant Women In-Home Care Workers is one of two IWPR studies focused on ways to improve labor conditions and rights among immigrant women in home care work.
This paper explores options for reforming the U.S. visa system to increase the pathways to legal status for undocumented immigrant women interested in providing long-term care for the elderly and for individuals with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
By Jasmin Griffin Today marks 20 years since President Bill [...]
Domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking are crimes with deep economic impacts.
Women in the Charlotte metropolitan area, and in North Carolina as a whole, have made much progress during the last few decades.
