Election 2020

Biden’s comments during the election campaign suggest he will push for more pay transparency and a tougher line on diversity among federal contractors.

From revoking Trump’s recent wage requirements to expanding the number of high skilled visas, President-elect Joe Biden plans to make it easier for U.S. companies to hire foreign employees.

President-Elect Joe Biden unveiled a plan earlier this year that would provide relief and support to caregiving Americans.

With the presidential election now decided, managers can model empathy and boundary setting to get employees back on track and refocused at work.

Without a Democratic majority in the Senate, Biden as president could not likely advance many of his top health agenda items — including lowering the eligibility age for Medicare to 60 and expanding financial assistance for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Health professionals share ways in which average, harried, news-obsessed readers can stay sane on and after Nov. 3., with wellness tips to handle whatever comes next.

The final stretch of the race for the White House between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has been fraught with dramatic twists — yet none of it appears to have altered the course of the race that was set months ago.

There's a balance between allowing an employee's freedom to express themselves in conversations with their co-workers while still performing their jobs, says labor and employment attorney Aaron Holt.

How each presidential candidate tackles workplace-related issues will have long-lasting ripple effects for employers.

COVID-19, the election and much more all need to be taken into account.

The presidential election is stirring a lot of charged emotions; a labor attorney advises how managers can keep these conversations productive.

“No one should have to choose between voting and earning a paycheck,” says Dan Healey, head of human resources at SAP North America.

The move is part of the effort by banks and other companies to promote racial equity and be more sensitive to the stresses on front-line employees.

Other Black women who’ve made it to the highest levels of their fields say Harris will strengthen conversations about workplace diversity in the U.S.

“The U.S. desperately needs more care policies, spending, and federal and state infrastructure, so that Americans with care responsibilities can stay in the workforce,” says Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, CEO of Wellthy.

Biden unveiled a plan to bolster child care and care for the elderly that would be financed by taxes on real-estate investors — a “caring economy.”

The former vice president’s plan is divided into four areas: a push to buy American and create manufacturing jobs; building infrastructure and clean energy; advancing racial equity; and modernizing the “caring” economy such as child-care and elder-care workers and domestic aides.

The Democratic presidential candidate proposes stricter rules for companies seeking federal contracts, and for diversifying the senior ranks of the federal government.

“I do have a lot of long-term worries about erosion of the employer providing group health insurance,” says one consultant.