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Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
The Minnesota State Legislature committed to $250 million in May for “hero pay” for frontline workers across the state. A working group has yet to develop a plan for distributing that money.
The Labor Department has launched an overhaul of the technology that runs the unemployment insurance system, which was overwhelmed by claims and plagued by fraud during the pandemic. But the agency says Congress must act to fix deeper problems.
For many key issues, however, partisan gridlock blocks progress.
Many people depend on care from home health care workers. President Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes a measure for investing in caregiving.
After a year of pandemic-induced economic and emotional hardship, workers are pushing the government for more relief.
If the bill is passed, it is poised to potentially bring millions yearly into the state’s economy from producers that would begin using the incentive to produce the backlog of on hold productions.
The emergency funds will protect pension benefits earned by 1.5 million active and retired workers nationwide, including about 22,000 Minnesota retirees who paid into the Central States Pension Fund.
The House passed the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act, the most wide-ranging, pro-worker rewrite of labor law since the original National Labor Relations Act of 1935. .
The Paid Family & Medical Leave Act would establish a system enabling workers to take time off to care for loved ones without having to worry about income.
The “Minnesota Safe Workplaces for Meat and Poultry Processing Workers Act” seeks to protect workers by ensuring their rights and benefits to a safe workplace.