By: Juan Reynoso, activist - voteforamerica@gmail.com
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American employers must end exploitation.
It is a shame that American employers use their employees at will to enhance their profits only, without any regards for their employees own time, abuses on scheduling, time off, vacations, working hours extended to meet employer’s needs, not Breaks and demanding caregivers to preform duties that should be preform by two employees.
Currently, there are 7.5 million “involuntary part-time” workers in the US. These are workers who weren’t able to find a full-time job or whose hours have been cut back. In June alone, about 275,000 of such part-time jobs were created. Struggling to make ends meet, about 1.89m Americans are currently working two part-time jobs. About 52% of retail workers and 80% of janitors and housekeepers and care givers know their schedule only a week or less in advance, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Retail Action Project found that about 20% of workers got their schedule just three days in advance.
Lack of stable, reliable schedules for part-time workers is "a growing national crisis in the American workplace", according to The Center for Popular Democracy. In addition to the weekly schedule changes, part-time workers are often victims of last-minute schedule changes as well.
Workers need scheduling predictability so they can plan and arrange for child care, pick up kids from school, take an elderly parent to the doctor and manage their own time to do other things not relate to work, employers must understand that they do not own the employees time 24/7 that employees need to know what time they should be schedule to work in advance so they can plan and manage their own time.
Reps George Miller and Rosa L DeLauro introduce a Schedules That Work Act to help part-time workers secure stable schedules; support this bill, send letter to your congress and ask them to support the Bill. http://www.house.gov/representatives/
Sources for this article include:
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/caregiver-best-practices.html
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