Employee Benefits

For too many Americans, the answer during an emergency is credit card debt, high-interest loans, or pulling from retirement savings.

An increasing number of employers have embraced empowering policies and compassionate practices that create spaces for families to thrive.

A universal safety net could better deliver benefits to workers, encourage a dynamic labor market, and promote economic security for all.

What is the next move that business should make to ensure fair pay, from the front line to the executive suite? 

A growing percentage of our workforce is disproportionally excluded from workplace benefits and often rely on a public system of benefits that is complex, fragmented, and not designed to meet their needs.

The uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throw the inadequacy and inequality of our workplace safety net into sharp relief.

Many ‘essential’ workers in grocery stores, delivery, and food service lack key benefits like health coverage, hazard pay, and sick leave.

October 15, 2019
Ida Rademacher authored this piece from Bottom Line Personal on employee emergency savings.