Employees: Benefits for workers impacted by COVID-19. Includes unemployment, workers’ compensation, job-protected leave and the rights of agricultural workers.
Agricultural Workers - An agricultural worker maintains crops such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts, or looks after livestock and may include agricultural inspectors, graders and sorters, and farmworkers.
- United Farm Workers: https://ufw.org/
- UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety: https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/covid19
General Guidance - Employer and employee responsibilities for health and safety, paid sick leave and expanded family leave.
- California Department of Industrial Relations - Home Page
- California Labor & Workforce Development Agency: https://www.labor.ca.gov/
- Chrysalis, Remote Job Assistance Services: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/pdfs/COVID19/Chrysalis%20Remote%20Services%20-%20English.pdf
- Chrysalis, Remote Job Assistance Services: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/pdfs/COVID19/Chrysalis%20Remote%20Services%20-%20Spanish.pdf
- Benefits.Gov: https://www.benefits.gov/help/faq/Coronavirus-resources
- National Council for Occupational Safety and Health | Leading the fight for safe and healthy workplaces
- Resources for Angelinos Economically Impacted by COVID-19: https://lajobsportal.org/#find-jobs
- SHRM Home - The Voice of All Things Work
- Home | U.S. Department of Labor
- Workplaces Respond to Domestic & Sexual Violence: https://www.workplacesrespond.org/role/survivor-or-coworker/
- Workplaces Respond to Domestic & Sexual Violence (Spanish): https://www.workplacesrespond.org/page/covid19espanol/
Hourly Workers - Rights and protections for employees paid by the hour.
- California Employment Law Report: https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/
- California Department of Industrial Relations: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/2019-Novel-Coronavirus.htm
- COVID-19 Safety: Workers' Rights in California: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/docs/business/Workers_Rights_Pamphlet.pdf
- LA Law Library, Online Class, Getting Paid: Wage & Hour Basics: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/hidden-classes/1589-wage-basics-pbw2020
Paid Family Leave - Wage benefits to workers who need to take time off to take care a family member.
- California Employment Development Department (EDD): https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019.htm
- COVID-19 and the Family and Medical Leave Act Questions and Answers, U.S. Department of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla
Paid Sick Leave - Wage benefits to workers who are unable to work due to illness or medical reasons.
- California Employment Development Department (EDD): https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019.htm
- National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/paid-sick-leave
- Know your workplace rights, responsibilities, and resources: https://saferatwork.covid19.ca.gov/
Unemployment Benefits - Cash benefits available to eligible workers who become unemployed or partially unemployed through no fault of their own.
- California Employment Development Department (EDD): https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm#UIBenefits
- California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (English): https://cuiab.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/documents/cuiabHearingInfoEnglish1.pdf
- California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (Spanish): https://cuiab.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/documents/cuiabHearingInfoSpanish.pdf
- ON DEMAND: SSI & Mental Health Disabilities: 5 Things to Know
- ON DEMAND: SSI and Mental Health Disabilities
Workers’ Compensation - Benefits for those unable to do their usual job because of job-related illness or injury.
- California Department of Industrial Relations: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/dwc_home_page.htm
- National Council on Compensation Insurance: https://www.ncci.com/Pages/AU_NCCIFactsAndInformation_Listing.aspx
Workers’ Rights - Rights guaranteed to workers by law.
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services: https://www.bettzedek.org/our-services/resources/
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Employment Rights Project Clinic:https://bettzedek.org/events/list/
- En español: https://www.bettzedek.org/derechos-de-los-trabajadores-clinica-virtual/
- In Chinese: https://www.bettzedek.org/employment-rights-project-clinic-remote-assistance-simplified-chinese/
- County of Los Angeles, Workers' Rights Information: https://covid19.lacounty.gov/covid19-2-2/consumers-businesses/for-workers/
- California Labor & Workforce Development Agency: https://saferatwork.covid19.ca.gov/
- Gender Justice - Public Counsel
- Legal Aid at Work: https://legalaidatwork.org/#
- Legal Aid at Work, The Workers' Rights Clinic: https://legalaidatwork.org/factsheet/workers-rights-clinic-answers-to-common-questions/
- Public Counsel, Workplace Rights Advice for Women & Non-Binary Workers: https://publiccounsel.org/clinics/workplace-rights-advice-clinic-for-women-non-binary-workers/
