Employee healthcare benefits
FILE - In this May 20, 2020, file photo, residents cheer and hold thank you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they begin their shift in Sioux Falls, S.D. Workers at the South Dakota meatpacking plant that became a coronavirus hotspot last year are considering a strike after contract negotiations between Smithfield Foods and the union have stalled, the union said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)
Union considers strike at meat plant that was virus hotspot

By Stephen Groves Jun. 02, 2021 04:57 PM EDT

Oregon nursing home residents to begin receiving vaccine

Dec. 21, 2020 11:37 AM EST
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The first nursing home residents and staff in Oregon will begin receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Monday. Oregon has set...

Tentative agreement reached by striking nursing home workers

Dec. 04, 2020 11:02 PM EST
CHICAGO (AP) — Striking Chicago-area nursing home workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Infinity Healthcare Management, the union...

FILE - In this May 13, 2020, file photo, "Hamilton: An American Musical" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre is closed during Covid-19 lockdown, in New York. The U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 theater actors and stage managers is blasting a proposal that would raise eligibility requirements for members to receive health care. The Equity-League Pension Health Fund on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, proposed hiking the number of weeks of employment needed to qualify for six months of health care coverage from 11 weeks to 16 weeks. The proposal would start on Jan. 1, 2021. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
New possible health care benefit rule roils theater world

By Mark Kennedy Oct. 01, 2020 08:11 PM EDT

Twin River could lay off workers at Rhode Island casinos

Aug. 24, 2020 09:22 AM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's two casinos could lay off more than 1,300 workers combined by the end of next month, according to documents filed with...

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, file photo, members of the Los Angele Fire Department wear protective equipment as they conduct a new coronavirus test on a woman, left, in the Skid Row district in Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles will offer free coronavirus testing to all residents regardless of whether they have symptoms. Until now tests were reserved for those with symptoms and frontline employees like health care and grocery store workers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Mayor: LA 1st major US city offering all residents tests

Apr. 29, 2020 10:24 PM EDT

Lack of business forces Portland clinics to cut staff

Apr. 10, 2020 11:23 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two large health care operations in Oregon are furloughing employees and cutting costs because of a lack of revenue due to the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, looks at a chart as Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return

By Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann And Mike Stobbe Apr. 09, 2020 12:34 AM EDT

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks as charts are displayed during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return

By Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann And Mike Stobbe Apr. 08, 2020 12:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2015, file photo, visitors walk toward Sleeping Beauty's Castle in the background at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif. Saying they don't know when they'll be able to re-open many of their businesses with the coronavirus spreading, Walt Disney Co. officials announced they will start furloughing workers in two weeks at its theme parks resorts in Florida and California. The statement released late Thursday, April 2, 2020 from The Walt Disney Co. said the first wave of furloughs will start April 19 and involve workers whose jobs aren't necessary at this time. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
With parks closed, Disney starts furloughs in 2 weeks

By Mike Schneider Apr. 03, 2020 10:27 AM EDT