North Carolina continues to struggle to create jobs and grow the economy in a way that will improve the lives of working families in …
June 2014 County Links North Carolina’s recovery from the Great Recession has been marked by slow job growth and persistent challenges for working …
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This qualitative inquiry into wage theft is designed as a first look at the impacts of wage theft on North Carolina workers, the conditions that make workers vulnerable to the severe consequences of wage theft, and the options—or lack of options—available to workers for redress.
With high unemployment and a severe jobs shortfall increasingly threatening the economic security of North Carolina’s working families, it is imperative that state leaders develop policies that not only create jobs but also sustain employment. Workplace policies that promote family economic security, such as paid sick days and family leave insurance, allow workers to keep much-needed wages and provide job protection when inevitable life events arise.
Wage theft occurs when an employer underpays or fails to pay wages to workers who have earned those wages. Wage theft can take any of a number of forms. For example, employers may fail to pay minimum wage or overtime, take employees’ tips, make illegal paycheck deductions, misclassify employees as independent contractors, or simply not pay promised wages.
North Carolina’s subsidized child care program effectively meets two urgent needs—fostering the healthy development of children and ensuring that low-income working parents have the supports they need to maintain and pursue employment and education.
Direct care workers such as home health aides and unpaid caregivers, usually family members, are the foundation of the long-term services and supports system. Unfortunately, caregiving – both paid and unpaid – has long been undervalued.
North Carolina is rapidly aging – the population over 65 is projected to more than double by 2050. The aging of the state’s baby boomers will correspond with an increase in community members with functional and cognitive limitations, indicating a growing need for direct care that allows community members to continue to live with dignity.
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