Tuesday, May 7, 2024

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

• Describe the extent to which non-standard employment arrangements, including alternative ways of hiring workers, contingent employment, and app-based work have taken hold
• Identify issues facing workers in two important sectors of the economy, higher education and health care
• Discuss the primary goals of workers' representatives in dealing with the growth of non-standard employment

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

• Explain how low wage labor affects worker well-being and how it is experienced on a daily basis on the job and beyond
• Examine how contemporary work generates stress and results in mental health problems, and describe efforts to minimize the stresses associated with employment
• Describe how working conditions are the consequence of a set of strategies to diffuse responsibility for the welfare of workers and what public policy is focusing on to reduce adverse effects of trends in the labor market