Comprehensive Approaches to Worker Protection

While decent work calls for a comprehensive approach to work and worker health, the United States has a “splintered” approach to labor, with enormous gaps in coverage for basic labor rights and sporadic programs by different levels of government and nongovernmental organizations that fail to provide comprehensive solutions.

  • Workers Excluded from OSHA, FLSA, and/or NLRA
    • Agricultural Workers
    • Domestic Workers
    • Self-Employed “Contractors”
    • Public Employees
  • Worker Misclassification
  • Weak regulatory protections
  • Gaps in collection of work-relateddata/research
    • Measures of wellbeing
    • Measures of underemployment
    • Inclusion of emerging precarious jobs
    • Measure impact of stresses
    • Measure effectiveness of interventions
  • Co-enforcement of labor standards

  • What are some of the public health impacts of underemployment in the United States?
  • What has been the impact of the domestic worker protections that
    some states and municipalities have adopted?
  • Have co-enforcement models lead to safer workplaces?
  • What is the impact of hospital staffing mandates on worker safety and injury rates?
  • How would granting work permits to undocumented migrants benefit all workers?

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