WHO: Nursing Home Workers Represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East WHAT: Rally WHEN: Tuesday, September 14th from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.**Press Conference at 4 p.m. WHERE: Cayuga Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1229 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca. If driving, please park at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church right next door @ 1219 T-Burg Rd! WHY: The […]
The Commissioner of Health designated COVID-19 a “highly contagious and communicable disease” on Monday, mandating extensive new health and safety requirements for all employers. The NY HERO Act increases worker safety against airborne communicable diseases and strengthens prevention against workplace infections. Under the law, all employers are required to adopt a workplace safety plan and […]
On March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a new law granting employees paid leave time to receiveCOVID-19 vaccinations. Below is the full text of the new Labor Law provision (Chapter 77 of the Laws of 2021).LABOR LAW § 196-C. LEAVE TIME FOR COVID-19 VACCINATIONS 1. Every employee shall be provided a paid leave […]
IMPORTANT: This position has been FILLED. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is hiring an Excluded Workers Fund (EWF) Outreach and Applicant Assistance Specialist who will be responsible for providing applicant assistance services to community members seeking to apply to New York State’s $2.1 billion EWF. The EWF provides financial relief to New Yorkers who have […]
Immigrant workers, most of whom are also essential workers, who were excluded from all federal and state COVID financial relief due to their documentation status, are now eligible to access one-time financial relief through New York State’s new Excluded Workers Fund (EWF). The EWF has earmarked $2.1 billion to go directly to such workers who […]