And Their Families For The Short And Long Term
As the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine rolls out across the United States, Minnesota officials have started providing the vaccine to the state's frontline workers. Some disagreement over which workers qualify as frontline workers have some industries scrambling to...
With record numbers of people working from home since early 2020, one unforeseen issue for remote workers is over what happens if they are injured. Are you still covered under your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance, or would treatment fall under your private...
A U.S. district judge says Tyson Foods is not immune from lawsuits for following federal guidelines to keep its meatpacking plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision allows a lawsuit filed by the family of Isidro Fernandez to proceed. Fernandez, who...
One of the great benefits of working in the United States is having your rights for a safe workplace protected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). There are also protections by Minnesota’s Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). In the era of...
There is still a long way to go, but early December saw the first COVID-19 vaccines' rollout. It will be months before the average person will have access to the two-shot process. Frontline workers will get their shots sooner, as will those in specific industries. Now...
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has many executive orders in place regarding COVID-19. One requires that all businesses establish a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan (C19PP). While some executive orders may be hard or impossible to enforce, the state expects all businesses to...
Healthcare workers in all parts of the state are seeing the pandemic numbers of sick and dead increase steeply, with records recorded each day as fall moves toward winter. Many have contracted the virus despite safety measures and had to self-quarantine at home if the...
Meatpacking plants have been the sites of COVID-19 outbreaks across the country. Here in Minnesota, the JBS plant in Worthington had nearly half of its 2,000 employees test positive last spring. A different JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, was the site of an outbreak...
It’s a common sight for those who drive around the Twin Cities’ metro area at this time of year: construction workers hurrying on job sites to finish projects before winter descends in its icy fury on Minnesota. Understandably, little outside construction work gets...
Everything that Donald Trump says, Tweets or does makes national news. His return to the White House after treatment for COVID-19 was notable in many ways, not the least for his dramatic removal of a mask before entering his home and the current workplace for hundreds...
