Protecting Essential Workers

Essential Workers – Essential Protections - U.S. Department of Labor

The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division protects the workplace rights of essential workers who are keeping our country moving forward during the ...

Essential Protections for Essential Workers - U.S. Department of Labor

Provide outreach and education to protect essential workers and ensure they know their workplace rights. · Reintroduce the Wage and Hour Division as a trusted ...

The Essential Workers Project

During the COVID-19 pandemic, essential workers are assuming personal risks for the common good. When they show up and do their jobs – sometimes without ...

Protecting your families from COVID-19 when you're an essential ...

How can these employees protect their families during this unprecedented time? The first step is an obvious one, but it's worth repeating—wash ...

Report COVID-19: Essential Workers in the States

While many workers have been teleworking and others have lost their jobs, some have been deemed “essential” by states, continuing to show up to work during the ...

Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety

Ensuring the health and safety of workers is a national priority and a moral imperative. Healthcare workers and other essential workers ...

COVID-19 and Essential Workers: A Narrative Review of Health ...

As the pandemic wears on and intensifies, it will be increasingly important to protect the essential workforce so that they can continue to work enabling ...

Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in ...

A key way to protect such workers is to physically distance them from other such people (workers or customers) – generally at least 6 feet of distance is ...

How the Federal Government Can Protect Essential Workers in the ...

How the Federal Government Can Protect Essential Workers in the Fight Against Coronavirus · 1. Safety standards · 2. Additional compensation · 3 ...

Essential work: Employment and outlook in occupations that protect ...

Utilities, information technology systems, banks, and other vital infrastructure require support from a variety of workers. (See table 3.) For example, there ...

How to protect essential workers during COVID-19

Providing free life and health insurance to essential workers who must leave their homes to continue working is an honorable and affordable policy.

Protecting the Pandemic Essential Worker

To ensure essential F2F workers who perform jobs that become potentially lethal because of essentiality declarations are better protected during ...

Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID-19 - CISA

In August 2020, Version 4.0 was released which identified those essential workers that require specialized risk management strategies to ensure ...

Protecting the Health and Safety of our Essential Workers

What employers can do to protect the health and safety of essential workers · Ensure a safe and healthful workplace free from recognized hazards ...

A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on the moral indignity facing millions of essential workers who perform jobs vital to the country ...

How Essential Workers Can Protect Themselves From COVID-19

“Wash your hands frequently, clean communal surfaces often, wear a mask and gloves. Don't touch your face or mask. Don't use your cell phone at work.

Protecting the Rights of Essential Workers during COVID-19

We have put together this FAQ page to answer some of the most common questions we get regarding the current pandemic and your rights as an essential worker.

Essential Workers Protected Us, We Should Protect Them - Third Way

It Retains the Workforce We Need. Providing legal status to essential immigrant workers isn't just the morally right thing to do. It's the right ...

Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce - CISA

... protecting critical infrastructure workers ... Workers supporting essential maintenance, manufacturing, design, operation, inspection, security ...

Unions Fight to Protect All Essential Workers

The Essential Workers Bill of Rights · Health and safety protections. · Robust premium compensation. · Protections for collective bargaining agreements. · Truly ...