Celine McNicholas
Celine McNicholas is labor counsel for the Economic Policy Institute and a core member of EPI’s Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages, a policy response team that tracks the Trump administration’s wage and employment policies.
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Views Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Republicans and Corporate Interests Exploit Coronavirus Crisis to Erase Companies' Liability Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced that they are working on legislation to give companies enhanced protections against lawsuits by employees and consumers who contract COVID-19 and claim that the business is responsible for their infection... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 05, 2020 We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights—Now In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Congress has now passed four separate relief and recovery measures allocating trillions of dollars in aid, but none have provided meaningful protections to working people. Workers continue to be required to work without protective gear . Sick workers... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 13, 2020 Congress Should Immediately Pass Legislation Protecting Workers' Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic Key takeaways: Working people should not have to wait for a fourth recovery bill for vital, lifesaving protections, while corporations have received $450 billion in aid with no strings attached. The federal government should take on the role of “payroll of the last resort” like some other nations,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 07, 2020 What a 'Phase Four' Stimulus Package Must Provide In the last two weeks, nearly 10 million people applied for unemployment insurance. The March jobs report revealed a loss of 701,000 jobs —the first monthly job loss in nearly 10 years and already one of the worst monthly losses on record. Further, March’s job loss numbers are just the tip of the... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 23, 2020 Any Industry Bailout Package Must Include Meaningful Protections for Working People and Guardrails Against Corporate Greed This week, Congress continues to negotiate a fiscal stimulus package to help ease the economic shock of the coronavirus. In these negotiations, it is critical that lawmakers establish strong conditions for industry bailouts. Working families, not just shareholders and corporate executives, must... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 16, 2017 Supreme Court Will Decide If Women Can Join Together To Fight Sexual Harassment At Work After the news that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had been sexually harassing and assaulting women in the movie industry for decades , millions of women shared their stories with the hashtag #metoo. The social media campaign shined a light on a fact that to many women: sexual harassment is a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Unions Help Narrow the Gender Wage Gap Tuesday, April 4th is Equal Pay Day— the day that marks when a typical woman’s earnings catch up to what a man earned in the previous year. The gender wage gap is a measure of pay disparity between men and women. The research is conclusive: gender wage gaps exist across the wage distribution and... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 06, 2017 Federal Contract Workers Need the Protection of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule Last week, Senator Warren, joined by her colleagues Senator Murray and Senator Sanders, asked Attorney General Sessions to open a criminal investigation into the deaths and serious injuries of workers employed by VT Halter Marine, Inc., a shipbuilder with United States Navy contracts. Senators... Read more |