Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

As local governments have issued stay-at-home orders and shut down businesses to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the past year, cases of domestic violence have increased.

The struggles of employees in the midst of the upheaval that has sent many out of their offices to work remotely are being overlooked by their managers and company leaders.

The memo calls for Congress to work with the White House to include permanent paid leave in the $3 trillion “Build Back Better” recovery plan the Biden administration is preparing to roll out.

As part of its new metrics, McDonald’s is targeting 35% of U.S. senior management to be from underrepresented groups by 2025, up from 29% currently.

“This is the first time someone is making the claim that if you have COVID and you live with someone who has a job, you can sue the employer for potentially having given you COVID,” said Bill Bogdan, a lawyer for the company.

The advent of the Internet and other technology advances in recent years has made working from home — whether for themselves or corporations — much easier than in the 1980s when only 10% of Americans could pull that off.

Safety strategies like mandatory mask-wearing and physical distancing rules may provide a model for other firms making reopening plans.

More than one-third of parents, mostly women, have yet to return to jobs they lost largely because there’s no one to look after their kids.

Employees in the food service, retail hospitality and entertainment industries could see a steep decline in demand.

During the coronavirus pandemic, reducing stress and anxiety has been a focus.