Column: As vaccines become easier to get, your boss could require you to get one if you want to keep your job. You may think that violates your freedoms, but it’s legal.
Workers find connection around faith in employee resource groups
Feb 14, 2021 catholic news service
A woman uses her phone in an office building in this illustration photo. (Credit: Toru Hanai/Reuters via CNS.)
Corporate executives are finding that ERGs boost employee morale, giving a company a competitive advantage and ultimately strengthening the bottom line.
CLEVELAND As the Muslim observance of Ramadan got underway last April in the early days of the pandemic, Yasmin Khaliq was feeling isolated and alone in Dubai where she worked as a marketing director for California-based Equinix, a digital infrastructure company.
Accustomed to breaking the fast after sunset with friends or family was something she always looked forward to, but under Dubai’s government-ordered lockdown, the nightly meal was going to be lonely.
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The migrant girl was around 6 years old, dehydrated, fluish and despondent. Her head looked too big for her body a sign of malnutrition and she had lice in her hair.
The girl had spent two weeks outdoors held at the sunbaked Border Patrol detention center in El Paso with her asylum-seeking family before being brought to a migrant shelter in San Diego. That’s where Jenn Budd found her in the summer of 2018, and she needed serious medical intervention.
For the record:
11:43 AM, Feb. 14, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the migrant girl at the shelter had Lysol in her hair. She had lice in her hair.
Men make substantially higher incomes than women for performing the same work, in the same company.
In fact, Latina women only earn 63 percent of the salary of comparable men, with Black women and white women earning 69 percent and 82 percent, respectively. On average, women lose almost 408,000 in earnings over the course of a 40-year career. The losses are greater with Latina women and Black women they lose as much as 1 million dollars. Equally troubling is that the gender-wage gap has not improved over the last 16 years.
This gender-wage gap is occurring despite federal legislation that governs equal pay for equal work. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963. The act prohibits wage discrimination between men and women who perform jobs that require substantially the same skill, effort and responsibility within the same company. The act also provides exceptions to its mandate for wage equity that include pay differences based on seniority, merit, production and other factors
Saturday, February 13, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines become available to greater swaths of the population, many employers are considering ways to incentivize employees to get vaccinated. Incentives can take many forms, including extra pay, paid time off, gift cards, or tangible gifts. Employers that offer incentives to employees to get vaccinated may be creating group health plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). In addition, incentivized vaccination programs may need to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Finally, guidance issued under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) provides a road map for employers to avoid running afoul of GINA.