COVID-19

This article references a recent study conducted by The Worker Institute at Cornell and the Model Alliance that illustrated the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on fashion models.

As Major League Baseball explores using cameras to detect maskless fans, professor Ifeoma Ajunwa raises concerns that we are “ushering in an era of constant surveillance for citizens.”

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at the ILR School, says that union workers need an aggressive response to President Donald Trump’s order removing some potential liabilities from employers.

Psychological hardships are being created by the pandemic’s financial toll, says Professor Francine Blau.

New York state’s shared work system is explained by Worker Institute Labor and Policy Research Director Maria Figueroa.

Workers face more strain as cost-cutting technological changes accelerate in health care, says Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin.

Thomas Golden provides a long list of issues that face workers with disabilities as the global pandemic is worsening a labor market that already presented numerous obstacles.

Russell Weaver, director of research at ILR Cornell in Buffalo, is quoted extensively in this article about the $600 bump in unemployment benefits, and what it says about wages.

The pandemic has increased pressure on women who care for both children and parents, and could cause some of them to drop out of the labor force, according to Professor Francine Blau.

Groshen asks why jobless benefits for independent contractors and others are aren’t offered on a permanent basis.

Retrofitting malls with air filtration systems required for compliance with COVID-19 safety practices is complex — much depends on the systems already in place, says Nellie Brown of the Worker Institute.

As employees transition back to work, various new technologies are being deployed to ensure health and safety. The move is broadly welcomed by workforces, but Ifeoma Ajunwa believes greater debate around these policies is necessary.

This opinion piece references a paper by Erica Groshen and her colleague Harry J. Holzer stating that “automation and globalization are not likely to subside anytime soon” and that “all else equal, these forces suggest ongoing rising wage inequality in the future.”

Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin writes this opinion piece about his research that was recently released showing that experimentation with new technology in health care without any interventions from caregivers could hurt workers and alienate patients.

The incremental jobs rebound is due to bosses reemploying temporarily laid off workers, according to ILR economist Erica Groshen.

Research by Emily Zitek helps shed light on why some people are following COVID-19 rules, while others are choosing to ignore them.

Economists were shocked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May unemployment report. Erica Groshen, who was commissioner of the BLS from 2013 to 2017, explains what happened.

Professor Francine Blau provides insight on the negative effect of the cost of childcare and how it adversely affects women in the labor force.

The bleak unemployment figures in New York state are broken down by Russell Weaver, who explains that the state’s numbers may be a little worse than the national averages.

Journalists across New York connect with experts, like ILR’s Chris Collins and Nellie Brown, to report on what some of the new state policies and plans will look like over the coming weeks and months.

Will COVID finally change our pre-pandemic work culture around sick days? Vanessa Bohns explains that what once made you an ‘ideal worker’ could now make you seem “reckless and irresponsible.”

The future of retail could include widened aisles, a goodbye to cash and staggered worker hours, says Nellie Brown of the Worker Institute.

Lee Adler argues that schools, which are “dangerous breeding grounds” for the coronavirus, should remain closed until widespread testing is available.

One in six of New York state's employable residents is out of a job and it's unclear, says Russell Weaver of ILR's Buffalo Co-lab, when employment will recover from COVID-19's economic destruction.

Op-Ed: According to Adam Seth Litwin’s research, hospitals that outsourced their janitorial staff reported nearly twice as many patients contracting one particularly deadly “superbug.”

Patricia Campos-Medina explains the demands of workers that participated in the May Day ‘sick outs,’ and what corporations should do to help their employees during the coronavirus crisis.

Ian Greer, Director of the ILR Ithaca Co-Lab and Senior Research Associate at Cornell University’s ILR School, explained how the unemployment insurance system functions.