Health @ Work

Connecticut is the latest state to ban discriminating against natural hair in the workplace and at schools.

Ben Bonnema, a former employee of Trader Joe’s Upper West Side location in Manhattan, claimed on Twitter last week he was fired for asking for safer workplace conditions. Bonnema alleges he wrote a letter to the company's CEO, requesting heightened safety measures such as improved filtration, limiting store capacity based on CO2 levels, not allowing anyone inside the store without a mask, and adopting a "3 strikes policy" to keep "uncooperative people from our stores."

Looking back on it now, Jim should’ve been so fired.

Seven in 10 Americans are struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance during COVID-19.

While hospitals across the country are searching for PPE one organization is working to help hospitals throughout the southeast. ‘Sewing masks for Atlanta hospitals’ was started by three women and they are working to make sure healthcare workers have the masks they need to survive COVID-19.

 California's 40 million residents should stay home indefinitely and venture outside only for essential jobs, errands and some exercise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, warning that the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the state's medical system.

If no control measures or spontaneous changes in individual behavior are undertaken, authors noted that a peak in daily deaths from COVID-19 could occur in about three months, somewhere around June 20 in the U.S.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has sickened more than 162,000 people worldwide and has left more than 6,000 dead, with thousands of new cases confirmed each day.

Nicolas Stover, is suing the company after being fired from a Winchester, Kentucky call center for what his supervisor told him was “time theft.” In the involuntary termination letter he received on Dec. 21, 2017, there was no written reason for his dismissal, although he says his supervisor accused him of taking too much personal time, due to his “excessive bathroom breaks.”

You wouldn’t walk up to a co-worker’s cubicle and challenge him to do 25 sit-ups on a typical workday, but you might challenge him online if your company was using one of the new social media platforms designed to encourage employees to stay (or get) in shape.  Or you might find that challenge in your own inbox, or an offer to go for a bike ride after work