Election 2020

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.