Paid sick days save companies money in long run Re: "The fix is on D.C. sick leave audit," Sept. 30 The Employment Policies Institute's Michael Saltsman makes several false assumptions when he questions the validity of research on paid sick days by the Institute for [...]
Men have lost more jobs than women over the course of the recession—in large part because male-dominated industries like construction have suffered some of the most dramatic drops. But male employment has also recovered at a faster pace. At their lowest point of employment in early [...]
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis released today of the September employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job growth was evenly divided with women and men each gaining 57,000 jobs, mostly in the private sector as in past months.
"When Jeanne Majors, 63, took an early retirement in December 2005, she assumed that she would pick up a part-time job and be in good financial shape. She didn't know that her future would quickly fall apart. Majors, who is single and lives in Brooklyn, [...]
Nearly four years after the District enacted a law that made it mandatory for most workplaces to offer paid sick days to employees, advocacy groups and researchers are ramping up pressure on the city to review the policy to determine whether it’s been effective at [...]
The gap between women’s and men’s pay remained about the same for the fourth straight year in 2011, as both genders got slammed by lower wages. Women earned 77 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2011, the Census Bureau said this week as [...]