Tanya Goldman was quoted about the impact of workers having lost the right to paid sick and family leave at the end of December after Congress failed to extend them in the new relief package.
“We’ve been asking Wage-and-Hour to stand up a hotline for workers who want to access rights to paid sick days for six months,” said Tanya Goldman, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy and a former WHD official in the…
"Workers with low wages are most in need of paid leave," said Tanya Goldman, a former Labor Department policy adviser who's now an attorney at the nonprofit Center for Law and Social Policy.
CLASP and the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program created a toolkit describing how to use media coverage and public disclosure to improve policy outcomes.
The Civil Rights Act enshrined principles of human dignity and equality in federal law, ending segregation in public places and banning employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin—but much remains unfulfilled.
"The Labor Department got to define what constitutes a 'health-care provider,' and the definition is so broad it can include janitors working at a hospital for third-party companies, said Tanya L. Goldman, an attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy."