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Defenders of JusticeWorkers’ Rights Project
Repairing Our Broken Unemployment Insurance System
As North Carolina enters a period of economic recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be imperative for the state to make significant adjustments and improvements to its unemployment insurance (UI) system in order to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands out of work across the state.
Providing Everyone With Paid Leave
Millions of North Carolina workers lack paid sick days protections as COVID-19 spreads, forcing them to choose to between earning their paycheck and keeping themselves, their families, and their coworkers healthy.
Safe & Healthy Workplaces
“My workplace is reopening, but I’m afraid conditions there are unsafe. What can I do?” The Division of Employment Security will consider that you have good cause not to return to work, and you may be eligible to continue to receive unemployment benefits, under the following circumstances.
Call on state leaders to protect NC meat and poultry processing workers from COVID-19 at work
With more than 800 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at North Carolina meat and poultry processing plants and outbreaks in at least 19 plants, it is urgent that North Carolina’s leaders act swiftly to protect the thousands of workers at these plants who call North Carolina home.
Sign the petition to express our grave concerns about COVID-19 related to working conditions in North Carolina’s poultry and meat processing plants.