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There’s No Such Thing as a Low-Skill Worker The label flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the work they do. 6:30 AM ET Getty Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a few minutes, watching a guy slicing garnishes, expending half the energy I would if I were doing the same at home and at twice the speed. The economy of his cooking was magnetic. H...

Courtesy of Claudia Scritchfield Child and Migrant Services used to host weekly dinners for workers, but due to COVID-19 now makes about 150 free meals every week that it delivers to workers or makes available for pickup. Last March, Mesa County was still bracing for impact.  Cases of COVID-19 had started to spark in resort communities and along the Front Range, but this rural swath of the Western Slope was largely untouched.  Within months, however, it would have one of the highest coronavir...

Thursday, March 4, 2021 The gap between jobs needing to be filled and the skilled talent pool capable of filling them continues to grow wider in many industries, particularly in the U.S. manufacturing industry. The ability to retain labor from abroad is essential to closing this gap, helping to replace an aging workforce, and infusing high skills into the market — boosting innovation and technological change, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine�...

Colorado State Capitol, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Olivia began babysitting as a teenager to earn extra money for her family. Now in her 30s, she recently earned an early childhood education credential and dreams of starting a licensed child care business in her home. But that won’t happen under current Colorado law. Olivia is an undocumented immigrant; she came to the U.S. at 10 years old and is now trying to become a citizen. She asked Colorado Public Radio News to only use her middle name out...

Rantz: Dems push unemployment for illegal immigrants, try skirting federal govt. Sen. Rebecca Saldaña and Sen. Karen Keiser. While there are still thousands of Washington residents missing unemployment checks, Washington Democrats are pushing legislation to establish a $350,000,000 unemployment program for illegal immigrants. They’re even trying to avoid the “very irritating” federal government from taking notice. But lawmakers don’t know who would fund the program. They acknowledge e...

Quebec urged to list burnout as an occupational disease in update to workplace safety laws Labour groups and medical specialists want burnout categorized as an "occupational disease," meaning it would be considered the same way lung cancer is for construction workers exposed to asbestos. Social Sharing

Jonathan Dingel, Brent Neiman By mid-December 2020, more than 65 million people globally had been infected by COVID-19 and more than 1.5 million had died from it. The human cost of the pandemic is dramatic. Its economic cost is also huge. Global GDP contracted by 10% in the first half of 2020. Over the first half of 2020, major European countries experienced drops in both output and private consumption of up to 20% (OECD 2020). Europe has been hit particularly hard by the two waves of the pande...

Many migrants work in the hospitality sector in Europe The researchers estimate that lockdown measures put nine million workers at high risk of unemployment based on their job attributes. The analysis sheds new light on employment risk in Europe where data has previously been lacking. Uneven consequences for the labour market  The research focuses on two main categories: EU workers (born in an EU Member State other than the one where they currently work and reside) and Extra-EU workers (bor...

  QUEBEC -- A coalition of 215 community groups are demanding the Legault government increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. “It’s a question of social justice, a question of dignity,” said Marc-Edouard Joubert, president of the Federation of Workers of Quebec. The provincial minimum wage is currently $13.10 per hour. Compared to the other provinces and territories, Quebec sits in seventh place. Nunavut has the highest minimum wage in the country, at $16 per hour. Following that ...

A right wing extremists launched a series of attacks on immigrant workers and asylum seekers one year later a mob stormed refugee shelters in rostock at 1200 spectators gathered outside a shelter and applauded. a number of police officers who responded to these incidents were injured fortunately no one was killed. its also funny peter she said history has shown is that those who are disadvantaged or who feel disadvantaged or marginalized usually do not channel their anger into efforts to try and...