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.

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• 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

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• 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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