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Part VII of our “Paid Leave and Coronavirus” series, the New York COVID-19 Paid Leave Law provides for job-protected employer funded paid and unpaid sick leave,[1] as well as an expansion of the state’s paid family leave (“PFL”) and statutory disability benefits, to certain employees who are “subject to mandatory or precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation” related to COVID-19. Unlike most other state and local COVID-19 emergency or supplemental paid sick leave mandates in the United States,[2] the Law does not have a specified sunset date or criteria. The specific amou...

  As a reminder, a “fast food employee” is any individual working in a fast food establishment whose job duties include at least one of the following: customer service, cooking, food or drink preparation, delivery, security, stocking supplies or equipment, cleaning or routine maintenance. In addition, “fast food establishment” is any establishment in New York serving food or drink items: Where patrons order or select items and pay before eating and such items may be consumed on the premises, taken out or delivered to the customer’s location; Which offer limited service; Which is on...

Yves here. This headline hook is the lofty cost of DoorDash shares relative to delivery drivers’ meager wages, but the post goes further and documents some of the indignities that these workers suffer, like having no where to pee while on duty. One of my friends in New York City puts the situation bluntly: “We are now a minority-majority city. We whites here to a large degree occupy a similar position to whites in South Africa before the end of apartheid. We have servants who are nearly always people of color. And the people on the top support open borders to make sure those servants stay...